Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

Re:Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations by dfdz on Saturday October 16, 2021 @07:50PM (#28892656)

I suspect that this same effect is close to the reason so many services removed the dislike button: humans are emotional and were, in some cases, disliking songs which they were not in the mood for, but would like at another time.

As a result, the signal coming from the dislike button was not very useful, and just added unnecessary complexity. Instead, the algorithm can present the user a fixed song in different settings to see if they continue to skip it. A nice result is that the user doesn’t have the negative reaction “hey I disliked this song why are you presenting it to me again”

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Re:Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations by xerox13ster on Saturday October 16, 2021 @08:26PM (#28892863)

I frequently will find one of their auto-mixes I like, and listen to it for a while throughout the day skipping songs I don't like or I'm not in the mood for. Then when I go back the next day, even if I didn't restart the mix, it has updated, and what plays isn't the stuff I liked and repeated. It was the stuff they have financial incentive to get plays on that I skipped the day before and "might be in the mood for now".

This alone drove me back to my local music library.

I would rather dislike a song and have it recommended in a "How about now" playlist to determine if I actually hate it or if it was a mood in the moment.

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Re:Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations by bombcar on Sunday October 17, 2021 @01:34AM (#28894220)

I used to track “skip counts” in iTunes and would review the most skipped songs every month or so and determine if they needed to be reduced in star count.

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