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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by hammock on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:17PM (#15450880)
>1. I hear repeat songs in my discover all the time

Something is wrong. Discover Weekly is supposed to have only songs you have never listened to, even once. That's how it works for me.

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by schwap on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:16PM (#15453558)
The case I most often encounter is "oh, you liked x? I'm sure you'll like every remix of x for the next month of your discovery weekly!". Technically not the same song.
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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by wcarron on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @01:03PM (#15451269)
I get repeat songs now and then. Not a lot, but a noticeable number.
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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by mattkrause on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:46PM (#15452197)
Perhaps you've listened to the regular version of a song, but the Discover Playlist has surfaced its "radio edit" or some other very, very similar version?
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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by wcarron on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:17PM (#15453073)
Most definitely not. Same songs. Not referring to radio edits (though I have seen them too, sometimes).
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