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Yes, Spotify...I played some weird cat music playlist _once_ for my cat. Once! That doesn't mean I'm a lifelong cat music fan.
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Do you have any evidence for that claim, or is that pure speculation on your part?
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A dislike button would be handy. There is that feature on some of the generated playlists, but I don't think they do anything. My two biggest issues with Spotify right now are: 1. Release Radar filled with re-releases and remixes, often from artists who have long since passed away. I want new music as in released for the first time. 2. Name collisions. I'm surprised this is an issue, but I will often get songs from d…
How do you find good music blogs? I've basically given up on the recommendation engines and I don't have a ton of musically tuned in friends.
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Your first point isn’t true because most of the 5 star usage boils down to 1/5 stars and not 2-4. There are some users that use whole range and the info does have value. The main problem though is while that system may be better for certain users, it will be worse for the entire user base as you want a system that works well for both casual and power users. Really you want a system that works better for casual users…
My argument was based on the premise that votes from power users are more valuable as they better at judging the quality of the content. While the quality is partly subjective, it is not entirely so. Meaning power users, having more experience, know better what casual users should watch and would like then the casual users themselves. It is in the interest of the casual users for them to not be able to vote/their vot…
That is quite unlikely. What you call power user is someone distinguished by willingness to rank. It does not make that person better representation of all users or be more knowledgeable off quality or more experienced. Just more judgy.
It means you will be recommended based on tastes of special minority and likely alienate the rest of users in the process.
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No, I often have fear of skipping because I think it might teach the algos I don't like it, when it's just not what I want to listen to now. Ideally, they should let me like, dislike, skip, hate, completely block artists, and allow me to like multiple times, to teach them the ones I like over and over from the ones I like a little.
> I often have fear of skipping because I think it might teach the algos I don't like it So basically Spotify is performing reinforcement learning on you— beautiful!
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 case that's the only place I'll be seeing new recommendations so it seems to fit my needs well.
I find spotify's recommendation algo to be top tier. I get tons of low visibility artists on my recommendations that I think are awesome.
Would be great if Spotify had * "good fit"/"bad fit" button — I like a wide variety of music, but it needs to be appropriate to context. If I start a radio from a song, I'd like to teach it to tailor the suggested songs better but that doesn't mean I dislike the songs it _is_ suggesting. * Ability to give the social context — a band playing at a music festival will lean more towards hits in their back catalogue. At t…
Would be great if Spotify had * "good fit"/"bad fit" button — I like a wide variety of music, but it needs to be appropriate to context. If I start a radio from a song, I'd like to teach it to tailor the suggested songs better but that doesn't mean I dislike the songs it _is_ suggesting. * Ability to give the social context — a band playing at a music festival will lean more towards hits in their back catalogue. At t…
Why is a band playing at a music festival queuing their own tunes from spotify?
Has pandora licensed their music DNA engine to anybody? Pandora recommendations have always been 1000x better than anybody else. It’s not even a comparison.
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