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wtf! lowest common demoninator = a poor way to create art. 5x penny back..

• anotheryou 10y ago
  This is why crowd sourcing for anything touching "taste" fails. Even suggestion engines fail with this (I don't like the cliche artists of the genres I listen to).
  • SwellJoe 10y ago
    Yep. This is why every station I have on Pandora plays Pearl Jam, the Cure, and Bad Religion. All range from "OMG, again! why!?" to "mild boredom" in how I feel about them. No matter how many times I dislike Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder songs, they keep coming back; something like 30 or 40 dislikes, now, but the will of the crowd is that someone that likes the things I like is clearly supposed to like Pearl Jam. (One could argue this is a problem in their algorithm. By the third or fourth dislike of an artist, that artist should probably be purged from the possibilities.)
    • anotheryou 10y ago
      Especially pandoras metrics just don't cut the subtleties of "good taste". E.g. listening to something like Bach, with many interprets, there will be just a few that play it to my liking, even though most superficial (every single note) stays the same. Another problem might be the inability to split a personality. Many engines take the 7 people that behave most like you as a reference, but might compromise when trying to find people that like exactly the genres you like. (if you try to find people that listen to the same set of genres your pool of candidates gets so small, that the similarities within the genres are very few).