We aim to increase user engagement in unfamiliar music. We investigated listening duration for 100 unfamiliar art music items from the Australian Music Centre (AMC) library, presented under four different exposure conditions: a continuous affect response task, text/photographic information, text only, and no information. Participants could skip each item, and provided post-excerpt liking or familiarity ratings. Time-series analysis models of listening duration, liking, and familiarity, showed no increase in successive item liking or familiarity, although user liking and familiarity, positively predicted listening duration. The data confirm that directing listeners’ attention to discerning affect can enhance their engagement with unfamiliar music.

我们的目标是提高用户对陌生音乐的参与度。我们调查了澳大利亚音乐中心 (AMC) 图书馆中 100 首不熟悉的艺术音乐项目的聆听时长，这些项目在四种不同的暴露条件下呈现：连续情感反应任务、文本/照片信息、仅文本和无信息。参与者可以跳过每个项目，并提供摘录后的喜好或熟悉度评级。收听时长、喜好和熟悉度的时间序列分析模型显示连续项目喜好或熟悉度没有增加，尽管用户喜好和熟悉度对收听时长有积极的预测。数据证实，将听众的注意力引导到有辨别力的情感上可以增强他们对陌生音乐的参与度。