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Discover Weekly works really well for me. It surfaces a lot of music I've forgotten about and for the most part provides an interesting collection to listen to.
by aidos 9y ago
Discover Weekly works really well for me. It surfaces a lot of music I've forgotten about and for the most part provides an interesting collection to listen to. Having said that, I have a very eclectic taste in music, so it's probably harder to hit on things I won't like. My process is to try to listen to it several times through and then pick out the stand out tracks once everything has had a chance to grow on me.
One thing I worry about with it though is how much my behaviour might influence the choices. For example, if there's a track in there that I already know quite well, because I like it, I'm often scared of skipping it in case the algorithm takes that as a massive negative signal.
- cjCamel 9y agoSame. Also, anytime I get a bad recommendation I blame my daughter for wanting to listen to the Frozen soundtrack.
- Angostura 9y agoTime to introduce her to Moana for a change of pace.
- cjCamel 9y agoInterestingly (and now very off topic), she hasn't even seen Frozen. She does not yet know it is a film AFAIK, and I'm in no hurry to tell her. I believe that the concept of Frozen has been explained to her by her peer group, through the medium of hair plaits. Three year old kids are a weird and amazing bunch.
- aidos 9y agoThinking about it a little more, we've listened to a lot of Moana / Frozen / Disney on my Spotify account and none of that has come up in the Discover Weekly, so I guess they filter for it somehow already. Though I guess when they compare to other people with the same tracks you'll probably get a bunch of listeners that fall into a similar category anyway. Also, it doesn't sound like the number of times you play a track adds a huge amount of weight anyway.
- robteix 9y agoWrt fear of sending signals, I feel the same. Also, I have a young daughter who often asks me to play music in the car or Google Home and those affect my recommendations. I wish Spotify had some switch I could turn on to temporarily ignore anything I did until I switched it back off.
- archagon 9y agoIn terms of behavior influence, I listened to pretty much exclusively Hamilton for like a month and didn't get very many new Broadway or hip-hop songs (which is good for me because I tend to not really listen to either genre). So there must be significant weight given to songs/genres you've historically listened to a lot.
- confounded 9y agoOr, based on the way the algorithms work, people that listen to the Hamilton soundtrack a lot, don’t listen to hiphop/broadway a lot.