Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music

Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by ar-nelson on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:38PM (#15451049)

These solve the problem somewhat, but, in my experience, they only play songs I've already listened to. So listening to songs outside the genres I want recommendations for will still ruin Discover Weekly's usefulness as a discovery system.

I used to love Discover Weekly, and found a lot of great music through it, but it's gotten less useful over time. A few things that would improve it:

• Multiple Discover playlists sorted roughly into genres, like the Daily Mix but only containing never-before-heard music

• Treat Discover Weekly like a radio station, with thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons

• Once I've listened to a track a few times, stop suggesting it. At this point I can usually predict what my Discover Weekly playlist will be: all of the songs that have showed up on it before, but that I didn't like enough to click "+" on.

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by anidesh1512 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:44PM (#15451097)

They intersperse some new songs between my already saved songs.

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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by travmatt on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @03:19PM (#15452555)

I prefer them for exactly this reason - I’ve learned that I actually prefer less novelty in my playlists than I previously assumed. Spotify seems to understand this, and incrementally alters my playlists, moving through tracks and doing a good job of removing tracks that I skip continuously. I’ve noticed these playlists actually do a good job at discovering music for me within each genre

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