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I think Spotify's "Discover Weekly" playlists get pretty close to this. I really, really look forward to each week's new playlist. I listen to a wide range of g

I think Spotify's "Discover Weekly" playlists get pretty close to this. I really, really look forward to each week's new playlist. I listen to a wide range of genres, and completely agree with you that most discovery tools try to pigeon hole you into one or two. Spotify seems to pick up on other associations. I wonder how much neural net stuff they're doing with their big data.

SyneRyder 10y ago
EDIT: Oops, somehow missed that The Verge article on how Discover Weekly works had already been posted! It works on a variation of PageRank, where instead of links on pages, it uses songs in saved playlists. (If you have a playlist with lots of songs similar to someone else's playlist, you might like the songs in their playlist too. If a song is on lots of playlists, it's probably noteworthy, etc.)
tommyd 10y ago
I was going to say the same, Discover Weekly frequently really impresses me with some of its selections and I have discovered some excellent artists through it. I'm into electronic music - not what I would consider really obscure stuff, but certainly not mainstream - and many other recommendation systems seem top lump anything electronic together with mainstream "EDM" etc. (which is nothing like what I enjoy) whereas Discover Weekly makes intelligent recommendations of quite obscure stuff. I assume it uses some combination of social data (e.g. music listened to by people who listen to similar artists as you) and the intelligent classification ability they purchased when acquiring Echo Nest. There was quite a good write up about it - I think it was one of these two: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-weekly-online-music-curation-interview http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-w... or http://qz.com/571007/the-magic-that-makes-spotifys-discover-weekly-playlists-so-damn-good/ http://qz.com/571007/the-magic-that-makes-spotifys-discover-... I just wish it would save my previous weeks' playlists as sometimes I forget to listen to them and then they're gone!
- hyuibg 10y ago
  There's an IFTTT recipe for that! https://ifttt.com/recipes/311873-discover-weekly-archive https://ifttt.com/recipes/311873-discover-weekly-archive (only discovered this yesterday)
  - tommyd 10y ago
    Ah amazing, thank you! I had been doing it with https://rocketgraph.com/reports/21-discover-weekly-archiver https://rocketgraph.com/reports/21-discover-weekly-archiver but the archived playlists live within their web app rather than Spotify itself, so I never actually looked at them!

SyneRyder 10y ago

EDIT: Oops, somehow missed that The Verge article on how Discover Weekly works had already been posted! It works on a variation of PageRank, where instead of links on pages, it uses songs in saved playlists. (If you have a playlist with lots of songs similar to someone else's playlist, you might like the songs in their playlist too. If a song is on lots of playlists, it's probably noteworthy, etc.)

tommyd 10y ago

I was going to say the same, Discover Weekly frequently really impresses me with some of its selections and I have discovered some excellent artists through it. I'm into electronic music - not what I would consider really obscure stuff, but certainly not mainstream - and many other recommendation systems seem top lump anything electronic together with mainstream "EDM" etc. (which is nothing like what I enjoy) whereas Discover Weekly makes intelligent recommendations of quite obscure stuff. I assume it uses some combination of social data (e.g. music listened to by people who listen to similar artists as you) and the intelligent classification ability they purchased when acquiring Echo Nest. There was quite a good write up about it - I think it was one of these two: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-weekly-online-music-curation-interview http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-w... or http://qz.com/571007/the-magic-that-makes-spotifys-discover-weekly-playlists-so-damn-good/ http://qz.com/571007/the-magic-that-makes-spotifys-discover-... I just wish it would save my previous weeks' playlists as sometimes I forget to listen to them and then they're gone!

hyuibg 10y ago
There's an IFTTT recipe for that! https://ifttt.com/recipes/311873-discover-weekly-archive https://ifttt.com/recipes/311873-discover-weekly-archive (only discovered this yesterday)
- tommyd 10y ago
  Ah amazing, thank you! I had been doing it with https://rocketgraph.com/reports/21-discover-weekly-archiver https://rocketgraph.com/reports/21-discover-weekly-archiver but the archived playlists live within their web app rather than Spotify itself, so I never actually looked at them!