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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by whiskeySix on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:29AM (#15449534)
Pandora? Really? I've found Spotify to be orders of magnitude better than Pandora for both variety and discovery. Pandora was the first to have competent discovery functionality, and it was impressive for its time, but I'm wondering if this is "good old days" syndrome speaking.
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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by com2kid on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:53AM (#15456359)
With Pandora I can give it one song, and get a playlist out that won't repeat for a couple of hours (I really wish it was longer!)

With Spotify, I enter in a song, and get lots of stuff from that same artist (something Pandora can't do!) and then after that's done, a bunch of repeats.

Then again my problem may be that I'm trying to use Spotify the same way I use Pandora.

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