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Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Post by float4 »

spotyoufi462881 wrote: post #21

Anyone wanna know how much Spotify wanna know about you? https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1025024813889478656

I wonder whether they use the bluetooth device logging purely to develop their social graph. A person streaming music to their own bluetooth headphone using a friend's computer and Spotify account can be detected this way. I can't really come up with another purpose for it.

Other than that, I'm not surprised by what they log. Virtually every company stores search queries, oauth grants, play history, ad interactions etc. Doesn't make it right of course.

Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Post by chishaku »

matsemann wrote: post #30

I came here expecting to read about the tech in the article or how others do big data processing stuff. Instead I get off topic Spotify rants.. Did you read the article or just see Spotify in the headline and decided your gripes therefore are relevant?

You discover that people have different thoughts than you and decided your gripe about this is therefore relevant?

Upvote, downvote or move on.

Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Post by saberience »

One thing I can never understand about Spotify is that despite it's insane budget, huge amount of employees/talent, they still can't create better personalized playlists than either Pandora OR last.fm.

To this day when I want a recommended playlist based on my taste/history, I always use last.fm because it's just plain better. Why? The "Discover" etc playlists on Spotify are just crap.

Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Post by feintruled »

saberience wrote: post #54

One thing I can never understand about Spotify is that despite it's insane budget, huge amount of employees/talent, they still can't create better personalized playlists than either Pandora OR last.fm. To this day when I want a recommended playlist based on my taste/history, I always use last.fm because it's just plain better. Why? The "Discover" etc playlists on Spotify are just crap.

Really? I find my 'Discover Weekly' playlist to be astounding. I have to confess for a long time I thought it was a human curated playlist from someone who just happened to have exactly the sames tastes as me.

Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Post by H8crilA »

saberience wrote: post #54

One thing I can never understand about Spotify is that despite it's insane budget, huge amount of employees/talent, they still can't create better personalized playlists than either Pandora OR last.fm. To this day when I want a recommended playlist based on my taste/history, I always use last.fm because it's just plain better. Why? The "Discover" etc playlists on Spotify are just crap.

Remember the Netflix Challenge fiasco? It's pretty clear that this problem is either ridiculously hard, or it is fundamentally "unsolvable" (because, perhaps, it depends on highly variable mood).

Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Post by adamhp »

feintruled wrote: post #55
saberience wrote: post #54

One thing I can never understand about Spotify is that despite it's insane budget, huge amount of employees/talent, they still can't create better personalized playlists than either Pandora OR last.fm. To this day when I want a recommended playlist based on my taste/history, I always use last.fm because it's just plain better. Why? The "Discover" etc playlists on Spotify are just crap.

Really? I find my 'Discover Weekly' playlist to be astounding. I have to confess for a long time I thought it was a human curated playlist from someone who just happened to have exactly the sames tastes as me.

I have to second this. I can't list the number of artists I have discovered over the last few years using Discover Weekly alone. It's really incredible.

Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Post by matthewmacleod »

staticelf wrote: post #10

Spotify is a company that feels like they want to be a "big tech company" when in reality they do not need to. All they need to do is provide a great service with as much music as possible.

That's true – it's kind of like how Google keep pretending to be a big tech company when all they really need to do it provide a great service with as many search results as possible.

Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Post by [deleted] »

H8crilA wrote: post #56
saberience wrote: post #54

One thing I can never understand about Spotify is that despite it's insane budget, huge amount of employees/talent, they still can't create better personalized playlists than either Pandora OR last.fm. To this day when I want a recommended playlist based on my taste/history, I always use last.fm because it's just plain better. Why? The "Discover" etc playlists on Spotify are just crap.

Remember the Netflix Challenge fiasco? It's pretty clear that this problem is either ridiculously hard, or it is fundamentally "unsolvable" (because, perhaps, it depends on highly variable mood).

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