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WeatherTunes Lets the Climate Choose Your Music

To provide you with the right music, services like Apple Music and Spotify aim to provide playlists based on certain moods or activities. A lot of the time, these collections offer a variety of curated selections that, while good, don’t consider other contextual factors such as location or time.

weatherTunes is a divergence from the normal discovery music service, offering suggestions that are based on the weather in your current location. By pulling weather data like temperature, humitidy, and cloudiness, the app can provide a selection of songs that it believes fits the conditions.

To guarantee that it plays the best songs for you, weatherTunes will ask for a genre of music – and that’s it. After you hit play, the app will play you a continuous stream of music from YouTube, the videos showing if you swipe up. If you’re concerned that streaming YouTube videos may eat up your data, here are your numbers to note: developer Ari Amanatidis told me that he estimates that each song takes up around 3-5 MBs, with an hourly rate between 60-80 MBs.

From my testing, weatherTunes does exactly what it claims; with the weather nice today, I was able to get upbeat songs that fit the environmental mood. Other than the occasional back-to-back song, I haven’t had any issues using weatherTunes for listening to music.

Coupled with a well-designed interface, weatherTunes’s functionality makes this tool a winner. You can pick it up in the App Store for $0.99 (iPhone only).

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