Music recommendation system using transformer models

Re:Music recommendation system using transformer models by acdha on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:33AM (#41298999)

I’ve been surprised by how poor Spotify’s recommendations were - they bought the Echo Nest, and seem to have people who are quite smart working on it but when I tried it after Rdio closed no matter what I started with it’d be top 40 after a couple of tracks, enough so that I wondered if there was a background deal with the record labels.

Apple Music is notably better – and has the benefit of not funneling your money to the likes of Rogan – and the recommendations will be fairly good within a genre but it does overweight your library a bit (I wish it had a “I’m looking for something new” / “familiar” toggle).

I am curious what Rdio did differently as I had a very good success rate with their suggestions and it seems unlikely that there was some secret sauce nobody else has been able to figure out.

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Re:Music recommendation system using transformer models by cmur on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:18PM (#41301941)

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of using the DJ X feature in Spotify, it does a decent job mixing in some new things I like, but you’re definitely on to something when it comes to popular record labels. I don’t like any of the new pop, but every other “set” that DJ X provides has Chappel Roan or Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter or some other flavor of generic pop I never am interested in. Play counts for some of these popular artists are probably inflated due to that kind of thing.

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Re:Music recommendation system using transformer models by mimischi on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:08PM (#41302967)

> wish it had a “I’m looking for something new” / “familiar” toggle

Have you tried the “Discovery Station” on Apple Music? It’s supposed to play only music new to you. It’s fairly new and was introduced in summer 2023.

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