Ecphoria Player: Exploring, Revisiting, & Living-with a Lifetime of Digital Music

With the massive adoption of music streaming services globally, metadata is being generated that captures people's music listening histories in more precise detail than ever before. These archives offer a valuable and overlooked resource for designing new ways of supporting people in experiencing the music they have listened to over the course of their lives. Yet, little research has demonstrated how metadata can be applied as a material in design practice. We propose the Ecphoria Player, a device that leverages music listening history metadata to support experiences of exploring and living with music from one's past. We report on our design decisions, rationale, and implications for future design researchers.