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Re:Spotify files for its IPO by pitaj on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:40PM (#16067557)
Spotify's is based on machine learning working on the actual audio tracks.

It seems to me that Google Play Music's recommendations are based on what artists you like, based on machine learning, but not using the actual music, just pattern matching with other people.

I use Google Play Music, and am actually considering trying Spotify to get better recommendations.

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Re:Spotify files for its IPO by on_and_off on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:51PM (#16067623)
Do you have sources on this ?

Always interested to read more about how these recommendations work.

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Re:Spotify files for its IPO by san-fran on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:18AM (#16068431)
This is the article I read that talked about it. Sources are a the bottoms, and they seem legitimate.

https://hackernoon.com/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-machine-...

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