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Re: Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning

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Post by wmeredith » Wed, Aug 06, 2014, 2:12 PM UTC

CWIZO wrote: post #6

This is all great stuff. But until Spotify fixes some very low hanging fruit problems, such as not playing a song ever again if I click "don't like", I find it hard to believe they will use anything remotely complex as this.

This was my thought exactly. It seems like they're putting the cart before the horse a bit.

Re: Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning

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Post by benanne » Wed, Aug 06, 2014, 2:30 PM UTC

scientist wrote: post #20

Great stuff! However, I thought that the Echo Nest tools that they bought were already doing such stuff. If not, what are they currently using for content-based recommendation?

That's true, there is quite some overlap with what the Echo Nest are doing, albeit using a different approach. As I mentioned in the post, a lot of different collaborative filtering techniques are currently used together, so the same could be done for content-based techniques.

Re: Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning

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Post by Houshalter » Wed, Aug 06, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC

This web page is using up a lot of processing power and crashes a lot. And the playlists don't work for me at least. It just opens a blank page.

Re: Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning

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Post by wwwhizz » Fri, Aug 08, 2014, 7:33 AM UTC

CWIZO wrote: post #6

This is all great stuff. But until Spotify fixes some very low hanging fruit problems, such as not playing a song ever again if I click "don't like", I find it hard to believe they will use anything remotely complex as this.

Well yes, but it is "just" an internship, in which you can do something else than the company is doing. I hope they eventually will use this work, after fixing the low hanging fruit.