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I'm similar - I have an eclectic taste in music that is often not served well by static, long-term algorithms that place me into a "well" of the same sounding m

I'm similar - I have an eclectic taste in music that is often not served well by static, long-term algorithms that place me into a "well" of the same sounding music. It's a problem I think about a lot. Matrix factorization can deal with this a bit by using the high dimensional space to place your tastes into an area that reflects many different styles at the same time. In part 2 of the blog post we're going to talk about how we're modeling the acoustic qualities of music, which can find common patterns from completely different genres (for example, you may like soothing music with female vocals in both jazz and indie rock). In part 3 we'll talk a bit about how we can combine recent signals (like thumbs) to take into account your current mood, which I find helps pinpoint interesting music to surface right now.

omegaworks 10y ago
>how we can combine recent signals (like thumbs) to take into account your current mood This is the most interesting part of the problem to me. I always worry that the signals I send my favorite music radio service permanently alter the course of the channel. In some cases, I want that. In others I don't.
chestervonwinch 10y ago
> we're going to talk about how we're modeling the acoustic qualities of music, which can find common patterns from completely different genres That's neat! I was curious of this is / was being looked into. It seems like I often get music that's matched based on a demographic (if that makes sense), rather than music matched on the characteristic features of the current song / band.
- vintermann 10y ago
  What we call genre is sometimes circumscribed by stylistic elements, sometimes by subculture (demographics as seen from the listeners' own perspective). But quite often since the rise of radio, it's circumscribed by target demographic as seen from advertisers' perspective. The worst case of that is probably "new age", a label rejected by virtually all the artists so labeled (and most of the listeners), and having no common traits to speak of, but lumped together as whatever sold better in bookstores than in record stores.
nikatwork 10y ago
I've always wanted a "mood" button to separate the signals I'm sending the algo. So I don't get chamber music in the middle of my death metal.

omegaworks 10y ago

>how we can combine recent signals (like thumbs) to take into account your current mood This is the most interesting part of the problem to me. I always worry that the signals I send my favorite music radio service permanently alter the course of the channel. In some cases, I want that. In others I don't.

chestervonwinch 10y ago

> we're going to talk about how we're modeling the acoustic qualities of music, which can find common patterns from completely different genres That's neat! I was curious of this is / was being looked into. It seems like I often get music that's matched based on a demographic (if that makes sense), rather than music matched on the characteristic features of the current song / band.

vintermann 10y ago
What we call genre is sometimes circumscribed by stylistic elements, sometimes by subculture (demographics as seen from the listeners' own perspective). But quite often since the rise of radio, it's circumscribed by target demographic as seen from advertisers' perspective. The worst case of that is probably "new age", a label rejected by virtually all the artists so labeled (and most of the listeners), and having no common traits to speak of, but lumped together as whatever sold better in bookstores than in record stores.

nikatwork 10y ago

I've always wanted a "mood" button to separate the signals I'm sending the algo. So I don't get chamber music in the middle of my death metal.