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How bad is your Spotify?

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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by 1_player »

etherio wrote: post #7

This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad. Ouch. Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built. Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://new…

> You are 5% basic. Talpa and Villagers of Ioannina City? Where do you even find this shit?.

> You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around Ratatat's Magnifique.

The last line is definitely something I will mention to my therapist ... :-)

Still, it validated my hipster taste, even though it made fun of it. Suck it bot, I'm cool and your programmers aren't.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by dcolkitt »

What's really clever about this bot is that it mostly seems to criticize the good music in your library. Nobody is going to feel insecure about their guilty pleasures. I already know that Mambo Number 5 and Achy-Breaky Heart aren't musical masterpieces.

But when it starts telling us the stuff we think is high-brow stuff is actually crap, that's when people really start feeling insecure and second-guessing our personal taste. You start thinking wait, what's wrong with Nine Inch Nails and Haim? I thought they're supposed to be good...

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by naravara »

rutthenut wrote: post #110
Xevi wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels like it's a self-fulfilling spiral of bad music. The more I listen to the recommended music, the more of the same crap keeps getting recommended to me. Even if I skip them. I remember that Spotify actually had pretty good recommendations when I first started using it at the start of this year, because I had only listened to the songs I actually liked so far. But now I'm lucky if I find one decent song out of…

Seems there is exactly the same sort of discussion on another HN thread about poor recommendations from YouTube, also leading into a spiralling decline to more and more rubbish

It's not just media. Every year or so I reinstall the Swype keyboard and it works great. But after about a month or two it 'learns' from my jokey misspellings or starts learning a lot of my more obscure vocabulary and starts muddying up the very basic level of Swyping I actually want it to do.

It works great when it types out phrases as I swype and I go back and edit in whatever jokes, memes, or 10 dollar words I want to include. It starts to suck when it starts trying to include those into its predictions.

There's like a sweet spot of machine learning beyond which the machine gets more annoying than helpful.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by brianzelip »

adam_albrecht wrote: post #225
frakt0x90 wrote: post #181

I see a lot of comments about how bad spotify recommendations are. I have had great experience but I follow a methodology to keep the recommendations curated. I'll also note that I listen to a wide variety of music ranging from EDM to metal to high enery jpop to classical. What I have found is: - Adding things to playlists makes a big difference. If you really love a song, hit it with a heart, if you want to hear mor…

Another tip: Spotify seems to ignore anything you listen to during a "Private Session". I listen to a lot of ambient and instrumental music while I work, but I don't want recommendations based on this, so I always start a private session.

Woah, thanks! My 2020 list was topped by some tracks off kids albums which...are for my toddler!

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by naravara »

zamalek wrote: post #214
pjc50 wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that's a bad thing per se, if the algorithm correctly identifies that you like EDM. We then come to the micro-genre discussion - how specific are you in your tastes, and how precise is the algorithm required to be?

EDM is an extremely diverse genre. Recommending music because it falls under EDM is like recommending music because guitars are used.

Fans of any genre say this. If you don't like metal then it's all loud guitars and screaming. When you do like metal there is fractal complexity of subgenres all the way down.

Except Phish fans. For them there is only Phish.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by Strom »

martin_a wrote: post #142

This obviously isn't a real AI. My results and text pieces are pretty much the same as everyone else's here in the comments. It just fetches some playlists, fills the blanks in its text pieces and that's it.

Sounds like any other AI. Surely you weren't expecting some sort of scientific breakthrough with this gag site?

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by adtac »

etherio wrote: post #7

This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad. Ouch. Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built. Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://new…

>You're stuck in the early 2010s.

oof, I'm not even angry lol

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