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Ask HN: Does YouTube play what you want to hear?
If you're like me, you frequently plug in your earbuds, pick a song on YouTube and let it run in a tab while you work. I'm curious to hear the opinions and experiences of others who also listen to music regularly via YouTube.
Does it pick the songs you want to hear? How often do you go back and skip a song or jump to a totally different genre? Are there obvious improvements that can be made to enhance your experience?
- sudouser 8y agologged in account: spot on recommendations, unearths good stuff all the time. on devices that I keep logged off it is the opposite : 100% wrong, suggests youtubers, all the current pop and finally, my mother tongue stuff which i will never watch one thing i’d change: it keeps suggesting songs that ive already heard tbh i don’t skip a lot, just type what i want to hear
- Finnucane 8y agoI sometimes use it at work, but I search for what I want and don’t let it auto play. Occasionally something interesting turns up in the suggestions.
- jessehorne 8y agoHere's some papers and such I found that might be interesting. "Towards Playlist Generation Algorithms Using RNNs Trained on Within-Track Transitions" https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02096 https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02096 "Understanding Music Playlists" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.07004.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.07004.pdf "Automatic Playlist Generation" http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2015/004_report.pdf http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2015/004_report.pdf "An Accurate Algorithm for Generating a Music Playlist based on Facial Expressions" https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/312b/2566e315dd6e65bd42cfcbe4d919159de8a1.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/312b/2566e315dd6e65bd42cfcb... Nelson - A tool for modifying variables in Spotifys Recommendations API https://nelson.glitch.me/ https://nelson.glitch.me/ Source: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/nelson https://glitch.com/edit/#!/nelson MuruMusic "Song Categorization A.I" https://www.murumusic.com https://www.murumusic.com "How does Spotify Know You So Well?" https://medium.com/s/story/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-machine-learning-finds-your-new-music-19a41ab76efe https://medium.com/s/story/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-mach...