Weekly suggestions is pretty good for me but daily suggestions can be horrible for less widespread listening. Yesterday I listened some Iranian traditional music for first time with Spotify and It didn't take much time to suggest based on traditional and theosophical music, some dirty hip hop music full of swear words.
Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music
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#272If there is at least one song that I like in Discover Weekly, then I consider it to be a good mix. However, this happens once a month at best. After reading the article and all three methods for recommendations, I cannot understand how on Earth it comes up with its suggestions. Do I feed it bad data? Does it not take into account the relative "weight" of a particular track, i.e. my preference to listen to it multiple…
Completely agree with this and related posts.
I think curation is massively underrated - importantly, curation allows a filter on quality. Lots of popular music is popular for reasons other than its quality, and Spotify is unable to detect that. Critics can.
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#274I built the foundation of this system while at Spotify. While it's true that we looked at a lot of different signal, at the point when I left (early 2015), it was all based on collaborative filtering. The reason collaborative filtering works so much better than anything else is that given enough data, it will already encompass everything else. If there are reasons why certain users prefer certain sounds, or certain l…
I guess this is a less technical question - but what would your advice be to an artist who wants fans of their more famous influences (similar artist) to discover their music? Aside from the obvious (tour, market yourself to popular playlists etc). Sounds like there's some NLP and web-scraping involved...so would it make sense to come out with blog posts that compare you to the famous artists that influence you?
Even musicians need to understand a little bit SEO ;) Software is indeed eating the world.
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a way to consume Discover Weekly as a station instead of a playlist. ;)
How exactly? — Ah, figured it out: - Go to the DW playlist - Click the "..." options button - Then to "Go to Playlist Radio" - "Follow" the DW playlist radio - You can now up/downvote songs
DW playlist radio != DW playlist