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One thing I can never understand about Spotify is that despite it's insane budget, huge amount of employees/talent, they still can't create better personalized
by saberience 6y ago
One thing I can never understand about Spotify is that despite it's insane budget, huge amount of employees/talent, they still can't create better personalized playlists than either Pandora OR last.fm.
To this day when I want a recommended playlist based on my taste/history, I always use last.fm because it's just plain better. Why? The "Discover" etc playlists on Spotify are just crap.
- feintruled 6y agoReally? I find my 'Discover Weekly' playlist to be astounding. I have to confess for a long time I thought it was a human curated playlist from someone who just happened to have exactly the sames tastes as me.
- adamhp 6y agoI have to second this. I can't list the number of artists I have discovered over the last few years using Discover Weekly alone. It's really incredible.
- iamacyborg 6y agoIt's been the opposite for me. It regularly surfaces songs I've listened to in the past from artists I listen to frequently. As a music discovery algo Spotify has been nothing but poor in my opinion.
- H8crilA 6y agoRemember the Netflix Challenge fiasco? It's pretty clear that this problem is either ridiculously hard, or it is fundamentally "unsolvable" (because, perhaps, it depends on highly variable mood).
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