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Their recommendation engine is really bad IMO. I was hoping for a futuristic machine learning + listening based recommendation engine that could find similar so
by bitexploder 6y ago
Their recommendation engine is really bad IMO. I was hoping for a futuristic machine learning + listening based recommendation engine that could find similar songs based on what they actually sound like. Mostly they just find songs based on what other playlists your song exists in. It's really boring and not good at finding new music for me. It does OKAY and it isn't why I use Spotify, but I can't help but feel like they are missing the boat here. I remember working with Gracenote software like 15 years ago and it could fingerprint songs and find similar music at least that long ago.
e: my overall sentiment on Spotify is very positive, I just wish recommendations were better.
- nineumbrellas 6y agoCheck out SAGE from the guy at Hate5six. It's more punk/metal based, but if you're into that, you'll definitely find some new music. https://hate5six.com/sage https://hate5six.com/sage
- renjimen 6y agoPretty good! I tried it with some random cross-genre combinations of stuff I like and it found a bunch of other fairly niche bands I like. Looking forward to trying out the other recommendations. Works fine for genres other than punk & metal btw.
- renjimen 6y agoBlog post below on how the hate5six creator made this algorithm. Boils down to using the lyrics and community listening habits from last.fm to build a similarity graph for artists, then community detection to group similar artists. https://medium.com/@hate5six/sage-an-artificially-intelligent-band-recommender-d36a78d94109 https://medium.com/@hate5six/sage-an-artificially-intelligen...