Re:Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
by xerox13ster on Saturday October 16, 2021 @08:26PM
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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.
Re:Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
by bombcar on Sunday October 17, 2021 @01:34AM
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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.
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.