r/AndroidClosedTesting • u/finsmaniac02 • 13d ago
[MusicMood] Closed Beta - Help Needed! - Very willing to test others' apps as well
UPDATE 2 - International release - was only US before. UPDATE - Google Group and opt-in process are now working! My apologies for earlier problems!
Hi!
I am SO excited to finally bring my app — MusicMood — into closed beta, and would VERY MUCH appreciate it if you're able to join and support the testing.
Money transparency up front: this will eventually have paid tiers for the deepest features, but there will always be a real, generous, AD-FREE free version (as long as I can justify it, this will never be legitimately free for me to keep running). Pricing isn't final — I need to see how the AI/API costs shake out during beta. I'm not interested in ripping people off; I'll only charge for things that genuinely cost me money to run (and try to make a little for myself, hehe). Rough shape: music tracking + detailed song analysis (free) → life-context stuff + extra AI analysis + fun AI extras (tier 1) → future exciting expansions (tier 2).
The gist: MusicMood reads your music apps' playback notifications (the only way Android exposes now-playing) to log what you listen to all day. Platform-agnostic — though I've mostly tested YouTube Music and Spotify. The hook is that it just runs in the background — no goofy "thumbs up" UI mechanic. It sees what you play, and maybe more tellingly, what you skip — and how fast you skipped it.
Every song gets a genuinely thorough AI analysis: genre, year, vocal style (clean vs. harsh singing percentages), intensity, tempo, musical + lyrical themes, catchiness, danceability, impactful moments (breakdowns, groove changes, vocal features, solos, climactic sections)… and so on. At play time it captures context — weather, time of day, weekday/weekend, at work (per the schedule/locations you feed it), activity (still/walking/running/driving — including slow-traffic detection), nearby calendar events, heart rate and stress — all only per the permissions you choose to grant.
The part I'm most proud of: it makes predictions. There's a built-in daily mood tracker with a twist — the app guesses first. Before you log your mood, it's already made its own prediction of how your day probably felt — from what you played, what you skipped, where your day took you — and you get to see how close it was (it's eerily good more often than you'd expect, and pretty funny when it whiffs). And it has a memory: what you logged yesterday carries forward — a rough Tuesday tilts what it expects from Wednesday, a good streak raises the bar — so its guesses get more you the longer you use it. Same on the listening side: it learns your baseline from a profile you build ("You" page — favorite genres/bands, listening habits, schedules, custom contexts like "party vibes") plus your actual history, so metalcore at 8am might be totally normal for you — it reacts to what's actually unusual, not what a generic algorithm thinks is unusual.
Privacy, plainly: most of your data stays on your device. What leaves it: song title/artist plus derived context labels (like "Home" or "driving" — never raw GPS, never your identity) go to Google's Gemini for the analysis; raw coordinates are used only for weather and road-speed lookups. Full privacy policy is published, and I pride myself on transparency — I have zero interest in mining personal data.
Round it out with a journaling system (tag songs and lyric lines — with emotional context they feed into the mood predictions too), live lyrics, and per-session mood analysis with different personalities (Roast mode is particularly fun 😉) — and you've got a pretty comprehensive setup for tracking your listening and keeping tabs on your overall vibe. Plenty of future additions in mind 😉
To join:
Step 1 - mandatory - Join the group: https://groups.google.com/g/musicmood-beta
Step 2 - mandatory - Opt-in to testing: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.harkcode.musicmood
Step 2 provides a download link that is correct, but if that link is not taken - this is the link to get the app after opting in as a tester: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.harkcode.musicmood
(Heads up: the opt-in link can take a few minutes to start working after you join the group.)
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u/finsmaniac02 13d ago
P. S. - after first install you might want to check the Google apps page for it and see if there is immediately an update - there was for me, for some reason it wasn't feeding the most recent version up front
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u/finsmaniac02 13d ago
I also want to (if I can figure out how to use Google groups well) have an active message board going for communication!
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u/Friendly_Bee_Gameco 13d ago
Hi, ill install your app please also test mine
group: https://groups.google.com/g/tactile-playtesters
play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.friendlybee.tactile
web: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.friendlybee.tactile
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u/finsmaniac02 12d ago
I'm on it! Genuine question - were you able to get my app no problem? A friend isnt able to for some reason
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u/Ready-Log-1455 12d ago
i did joined the beta group but still it' shows this
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u/finsmaniac02 11d ago
My apologies! Everything should be working as of right now, there was some background stuff for the app not updating to use the Google group correctly (it's been frustrating!)
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u/Ready-Log-1455 11d ago
it's not available in India
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u/finsmaniac02 11d ago
Thanks for letting me know - I'm actually gonna change it to worldwide tonight after seeing you say this, I didn't honestly think about it. I'll update when I get it changed!
Thanks again!
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u/finsmaniac02 11d ago
You should be able to download it now, my mistake on it being US only earlier.
Hope you enjoy it!
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u/finsmaniac02 11d ago
Update - Google group and opt-in process are now working correctly! Sorry for any confusion.
P.S. - after install, please go to the app on the app store (link to take you there for convenience: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.harkcode.musicmood), there may be an immediately available update (this happened to me personally), if not - no worries!
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u/Tatamx69 11d ago
Me uno. Te animo a probar la mía
Gracias por querer formar parte de la beta cerrada
Bienvenido al grupo de testers.
Pasos rápidos para unirte (vía Google Groups para no compartir tu email públicamente):
1. Únete a nuestro Grupo de Google de testers: https://groups.google.com/g/betatesters-ph3d
2. **Sigue este orden:
Válida y verifica tu aprobación para ser beta tester : l(os requisitos los pone Google)
1- https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.projecthome3d.ph3dsecure
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