Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

Post by emodendroket » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 11:20 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #171

raffraffraff wrote: post #170

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I've never used Spotify or any other recommendation service. Music is like food: it's far too important too substitute with junk. I won't eat Subway, I won't listen to auto-generated recommendations. I browse (and support) rateyourmusic.com, I use the last.fm API (to find out what my neighbors are listening to) and I listen to music for free on YouTube before I buy it. I also heavily use tags on my purchased music so…

The problem: you don't want to be DJ-ing at work, where your time is better spent on more important things than what music you will listen to.

Post by dr_dshiv » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 11:25 PM UTC

jorgesborges wrote: post #22

So basically they’re developing a product marketed to streaming platforms to identify what’s “more attractive” to consumers. The algorithms are still optimized for increasing sales and engagement, not improving recommendations (for the user). That’s exactly why I’m unhappy with Spotify lately. I feel I’m being sold a bunch of corporate portfolios on what’s currently in vogue, and not just artistically but politically…

Post by mberning » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 11:26 PM UTC

Post by notyourwork » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 11:32 PM UTC

soylentnewsorg wrote: post #234

notyourwork wrote: post #167

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You’re speaking as if you work beside me and have a clue about anything in the music industry. There’s a reason Spotify doesn’t but uses to have dislike buttons more accessible. I’m not sure why you are disagreeing with me but there’s no need to speak down to someone because of different perspective. I have real world data and work in recommenders I’m not sure what your background is.

I am speaking as if I have no idea about your work and what you do. I am speaking as if I am addressing the specific incredibly stupid thing you said, from a user point of view. You know who does not care about your music "industry" or your "work?" The users of spotify. They care about listening to music they want to listen to. My background is I listen to music using things that play it. Spotify is absolute crap bec…

Post by notyourwork » Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 11:33 PM UTC

breakfastduck wrote: post #60

notyourwork wrote: post #5

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Without specifics I cannot guess as to your specific case but in general customer's just do not use dislike buttons. So exposing them isn't a value add and usually a UI clutter that most customer's have no use for and won't use. In general, you had to be doing something to be getting recommendations so there is some action that when most customer's do demonstrates a high probability that you will like some genre and…

I absolutely love it when people working on a product tell their customers that they don't need a feature they're all asking for and that would clearly improve the experience, just because not everyone uses it all the time.