I have to start by admitting that Playlist in a Bottle, Spotify’s latest proposal, seems to me to be a really creative, original and successful idea. Time capsules have enjoyed some popularity for years and sometimes gain visibility for all sorts of reasons. We could see this recently with the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind, which sparked a worldwide movement of people saving some of the iconic elements of our time so they can be restored by those watching us in the future.

In general, when we talk about a time capsule, we think of a container that will contain objects and/or messages inside and that has been designed to be discovered by other people in the future, but… what prevents a time capsule from being digital? And who says that their recipients must necessarily be other people? Someone in the Spotify offices must have asked both questions, and the answer is the genesis of Playlist in a Bottle.

As you may have already deduced, since we are talking about Spotify, it is obvious that the content of the time capsule is music, specifically a personal choice that each user must make by responding to a series of options that the service offers us, and to which you will have to respond , to build this playlist. Here you will find questions like “The song to kiss someone with this year“, “A song that reminds you of your favorite person“Y”The song you need to hear live in 2023“.

As you can see, some of the questions are related to the year we just started a few days ago. And because? Because as we can read on the company blog, these time capsules they are designed to open in January 2024. And by whom? I bet you guessed it too: alone. That way, twelve months from now, if you decide to create your Playlist in a bottle, you’ll find a musical message from your past self that will allow you to look back and see if your plans were fulfilled. or yes, on the contrary, nothing was for better or for worse as you expected.

So that everyone can create their own musical time capsule, Spotify offers this feature in both premium and free accounts, and yes, there is a deadline to create one that covers the entire month of January. However, this is not possible either in the web version of the service or in applications for desktop systems. Instead, you’ll need to use the Android or iOS app. There is also no direct access to it in their interfaces. Instead, you’ll need to access https://spotify.com/playlistinabottle from your mobile browser and open the Spotify client from there when prompted for authorization. From there, a wizard will appear to guide you step-by-step through the creation of your time capsule playlist.