Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new...
by w0utert on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:19AM
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I have a similar problem with remixes from trance tracks I listen to regularly. Some of them have literally 30 different remixes, and they keep getting into the 'discover weekly' playlist. I guess these would be coming from the acoustic profile or the NLP recommendation algorithm described in the article. That said, I still like the feature a lot, it's a little naive to think it could only ever recommend songs you will actually enjoy.
Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new...
by KozmoNau7 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:12AM
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In my experience (listening to ~95% metal/hard rock), all of the automated playlists work amazingly well.
Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new...
by HearMeRoar on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @03:55AM
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I’m from Sweden too and I always get at least 2 german/danish songs in my discover weekly and I hate it.
They have a ridiculous bias towards covers. I bet I've been recommended 50 (I wish that was an exaggeration) version of the Gladiator theme ('now we are free'). And they are all terribly bad (as in blood coming out of my ears bad). I am genuinely ashamed that someone thought that it would be a good idea to submit it to spotify - and if so how spotify could recommend it to anyone, there is no way spotify could have gotten any indication that anyone has ever liked any of those versions of that song. Similarly I get lots of game of throne covers, and now Despacito covers (never listened to that song in any variant on spotify, on purpose at least).