You’re millennial, calm, and looking for an aesthetic way to subtly (but not so subtly) change your musical tastes. This receipt can be downloaded as a PNG file to share with friends and family, a resource that has attracted millions of users worldwide. The song title and artist name will be listed as “Item” on the ticket, the rating will be listed as “Quantity”, and the song duration will be listed as “Quantity”. Google Receiptify will create a personalized receipt based on the music’s listening history. Users can subscribe to the music service of their choice and select a time period (one month ago, six months ago, or forever). This work was supported by a micro-grant from the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art the Frontier #2021-008. Liu’s project generated realistic “receipts” from users’ Spotify playlists and was used over a million times in the first few months.

Michelle Liu, a graduate student in information systems at Dietrich College, developed Receivetify, an online web application.

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