Yeah if I could dislike Coldplay a million times I would.
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Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
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#642been using spotify for about 5 years and i swear the recommendations get worse and worse. i can't use the release radar or discover weekly playlist because they're so awful. maybe thats a reflection of my usage, but would be nice to have a way to reset the recommendations or dislike. there wasa period when i would keep static noise from spotify on the background for a few hours and now 80% of my recommendations are s…
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#643So am I going mental or does spotify HAVE a dislike button? It's right there next to the like button![0] [0] https://i.imgur.com/UgUWUSk.png
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#644Does anyone know if the spotify recommendation algorithm analyzes the actual music in order to group songs? Or does it only do clustering based on users' listening habits? It seems like incorporating the former could help with discovering new and potentially less well known music, which is an area I'd like to see spotify improve on.
I'm pretty sure it's done via collaborative filtering (other user preferences), and not the actual music features (like Pandora does, or did before).
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#645I'm very confused at the article and the comments here. Spotify does have a dislike button. It's the minus symbol. You click it, and can choose from "I don't like this song" or "I don't like this artist", and it will block them from recurring. For some reason, it seems this doesn't appear in music that you've curated yourself, but it does appear in playlists spotify makes for you, like discover weekly. Odd, but in my…
Discover weekly used to be left right and center in the app. Spotify is now more focused on streaming songs that are already popular. I'm the creator of Piki, the Cornell Tech app mentioned in the article. Give it a try, if you want next level recommendations https://piki.page.link/Rng5
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#646“ Piki selects music from a database of roughly 5 million songs and incentivizes users by giving them $1 for every 25 songs they rate. The Piki interface plays a song, and then gives the listener the ability to rate it after different amounts of time. Specifically, the user can “dislike” the song after 3 seconds, “like” the song after 6 seconds and “superlike” it after 12 seconds.” These people are training on a comp…
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#647Oh, what I'd give for a dislike button. I tend to use Spotify to listen to nursery rhymes in the car while traveling with our toddler. This doesn't mean I need to have a daily mix full of nursery rhymes and there is no way to tell Spotify that.
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#648As someone who listens to numerous genres but is also selective with what I listen to, I am confident that spotify simply doesn't cater to my demographic. They are really about scaling to the masses, as is evident by their move into podcasts and constants frontpage ads on new releases, as well as aggressive song caching. From a business perspective, I believe its simply not worth the compute/development effort from t…
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#649By observation; why crowdsourced recommendations for music suck is that there's no "cost" to being a critic/influencer, and therefore no real effective filter. I realized that this is why current hip-hop is so much worse now; it's not (mostly) the artists; its that the "filter" used to be much more ruthless. Fewer opportunities for deals and "difficulty" in being an influence (e.g. DJ gigs, selling tapes from cars, g…
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#650I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that Spotify used to have explicit upvote and downvote buttons like 5 years ago? I assume they decided they could infer the same metrics from users skipping tracks for example
Sometimes you skip a song because you don't like it and sometimes because you're not in the mood right now. I'm the creator of Piki, the Cornell Tech app mentioned in the article. Give it a try, if you want next level recommendations https://piki.page.link/Rng5