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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by ricardobeat on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @03:48AM (#15447981)
Discover Weekly works well enough for me - I do wish I could exclude devices from influencing that playlist as what I listen while gaming on PS4 is completely different from the rest of the day. It also seems to have a bias towards “big” commercial releases.

Spotify’s “intelligence” in general is a huge let down though. Radio stations are extremely limited - more like 15-song static playlists indefinitely on repeat! It annoys me to no end, same for daily mixes. I end up listening to the same songs over and over and over and over again. Maybe that’s what makes them the most money?

Last.fm was amazing at finding me new music I liked. Rdio was amazing at.. radio :D I used to go for months on the same station. I miss both a lot, and occasionally I still use last.fm or everynoise.com to generate better playlists for Spotify.

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by terminalcommand on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:15AM (#15448553)
Spotify's daily mixes seperate the genres/moods. I occasionaly switch to listening electronic music, but I mostly listen to rock. Spotify has one daily mix of rock, one daily mix of heavy rock and one daily mix of electronic. It doesn't mix the genres.

But discover weekly only gives recomendations for the dominant genre.

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by cr1895 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:55AM (#15448268)
>It also seems to have a bias towards “big” commercial releases.

I haven't noticed this bias at all. It might be due to our own music preferences.

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by ricardobeat on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:00PM (#15453438)
I don't listen to pop very often - that's how I notice it. Eventually I'll realize that a song it added to my playlist is playing in the background in a shop, on TV or the radio.
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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by eziruby on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:13AM (#15457377)
The rdio Radio was actually very good. You can find a similar approach in Mentor.FM (and you can import your last.fm history to feed it).
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