Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ...
by rileyt on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:11AM
(#12959231)
I have heard talk of this before, it would be great to get an answer from someone who works at Spotify. I wonder if saving the tracks in the playlist and not creating the backup until the next week would get around that? There is no way they are track all plays, saves, playlists, skips for every user over all of time.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ...
by jimminy on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:14PM
(#12959992)
It doesn't track plays at all, it takes songs in your playlists and calculates close matches based on songs in other users playlists.
It's a relatively simple graph-transform that is just using occurence in playlists tor generation. Which makes adding the playlists self-reinforcing, which could have negative situations.
I have a wide range of musical taste, but a low number of playlists and can drastically change from metal to dance to hip-hop by adding a prebuilt playlist week to week.
Here is an article on how it works, and there have been discussions from the staff elsewhere on why DW is so good.
http://qz.com/571007/the-magic-that-makes-spotifys-discover-...