Spotify lives and dies by its users continuing to discover and enjoy music on the service, so it's come up with a new way to encourage that discovery called Tastebuds.

Although it has yet to be officially announced, as TechCrunch reports, the Tastebuds feature was discovered by well-known reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who posted a screen cap to Twitter.

Spotify is working on Tastebuds, letting users discover music through their friends pic.twitter.com/uqUXmRvEKo — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) December 18, 2019

Tastebuds is described by Spotify as "Now you can discover music through friends whose taste you trust." It's basically a social music discovery tool built on the presumption you will be interested to know what music your friends listen to and be more curious to sample new tracks and artists based on what you find from, well, being nosy.

For now, Tastebuds is not a feature you can use, but a landing page for it does exist if you want to check out the design. If it does launch, expect it to appear as a menu option next to the existing Home, Search, and Your Library links. What's unclear right now, though, is if Spotify users will be able to turn off the feature. Not everyone will appreciate friends scanning through their music listening history, will they?

One aspect of Tastebuds that could change is the name. Manchun Wong also points out on Twitter that a tastebuds app already exists which supported Spotify. Their is no association between the two, but it could prove to be a trademark problem, and one Spotify could ultimately end up wanting to steer clear of.