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> Unlike Netflix, though, Spotify doesn’t have those stars with which users rate their music. Instead, Spotify’s data is implicit feedback I wish they kept it
by a254613e 9y ago
> Unlike Netflix, though, Spotify doesn’t have those stars with which users rate their music. Instead, Spotify’s data is implicit feedback
I wish they kept it simpler with ratings, and explicit instead of implicit. The discovery weekly playlists are absolutely horrible for me to the point that I don't even bother checking them nowadays.
What works better for me for discovering new music with spotify is right clicking on an existing playlist and then "Create Similar Playlist" - that gives way more control over what kind of genre/style should the playlist consist of.
- Systemic33 9y agoExplicit and implicit rating systems will never fit everyone. But I will go as far and say that implicit rating fits a lot more than explicit, because it doesn't require the user to do extra work on top of the base goal of listing to "good" music. I feel like explicit rating scales very poorly with catalogue size. So when you have music, and as much music as Spotify has, then the work effort of explicitly rating your taste becomes too big, you start to not bother, and quality of rating becomes poor.
- jon-wood 9y agoThere's no reason that I can see not to combine both explicit and implicit rating. If I really love a song let me mark it as such, but also feed things that I've chosen to listen to/skip/add to my library into that algorithm (possibly with a lower weight).
- tormeh 9y agoYou already can 'save' songs in Spotify. I would hope they take that into account.