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A comment on Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music. Parent comment

Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by jonknee on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:30PM (#15452031)
Something like an "Incognito Mode" would be a good idea for Spotify and similar services.
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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by ben174 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:40PM (#15452133)
They actually have one. "Private listening". But you can't assign certain devices to stay in that mode.
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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by tinytim69 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:46PM (#15452199)
and exists: WIN: File/Private Session Android: Your Library/Settings/Social/PrivateSession

This will cause your songs not to be influencing the AI curated playlists (like Discover Weekly and Daily Playlists)

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