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Does anyone know if the spotify recommendation algorithm analyzes the actual music in order to group songs? Or does it only do clustering based on users' listen
by mimanning 5y ago
Does anyone know if the spotify recommendation algorithm analyzes the actual music in order to group songs? Or does it only do clustering based on users' listening habits? It seems like incorporating the former could help with discovering new and potentially less well known music, which is an area I'd like to see spotify improve on.
- MutableLambda 5y agoI'm pretty sure it's done via collaborative filtering (other user preferences), and not the actual music features (like Pandora does, or did before).
- mimanning 5y agoThat's too bad, I'd love to have the ability to explicitly trade off the recommendation criteria between music features and user preferences. I understand there's no real incentive for spotify to do this though.
- sasha_at_piki 5y agoCorrect. But collaborative filtering works better with dislike feedback. I'm the creator of Piki, the Cornell Tech app mentioned in the article. Give it a try, it's like a Tinder for music https://piki.page.link/Rng5 https://piki.page.link/Rng5