A Sad Thing for Families + Weird Music App
So I was on a road trip with my mom and her boyfriend to Las Vegas about a year ago. I'm a huge fan of beautiful new scenery, but despise the part where my mother plays obscure 80's songs on the radio (I'm 19 yrs old–please don't judge me). Obviously, I wanted to hear my rap and indie pop, so I decided to put headphones on and scour my own Spotify playlists for songs–as I had done on many occasions before.
It occurred to me that the point of the trips we take together, as corny as it sounds, is to spend quality time bonding, not to dig into our phones to replicate activities we can do just about anywhere else in solitude. When did these trips (many being composed of families) forget about people connecting with each other?
I figured that one thing that makes road trips with friends enjoyable was the experience of singing to music together, something I didn't experience often when traveling with my family because of a difference in musical tastes. Really, just singing along to the same songs and commenting on how wonderful or gross an artist sounds is enough of a catalyst to make road trips an infinitely better experience.
Honestly, I thought about this problem for a long time: how can we best find songs that all of us like?What if there was an app that could look at the Spotify playlists my mother made, the Apple Music playlists her boyfriend made, and my own Spotify playlists to determine songs that all of us listened to? The app could recommend songs that all of us had in common, or at least have a pool of better music for us to choose from. I decided to make this app (took a year), and in honor of the sandy scenery we saw in Nevada on that trip, named it TuneDune (what a catchy name, I know).
How it works: users make an account and connect their Spotify or Apple Music accounts. Then, one person can host a party which others can join. After others join, the host sees the top songs in common with all the party members, and can choose to play or queue them from inside the app (as long as they have premium Spotify or Apple Music). These songs come from everyone's playlists.
Here's the iPhone link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tunedune/id1525288136#?platform=iphone
No Android version yet :(
I used the app yesterday with my mother. Some of our common songs were in Spanish, so we actually weren't able to sing these songs together, funnily enough. Still, I hope you all can find some sort of value with this app–it's surprising to find out that someone listens to something that you did not particularly expect them to, especially if they are family.
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