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The amount of data Spotify has on user behavior must be awe-inducing. Not that I'm complaining, the Algorithm has shown me plenty of good music that I would hav
by mckirk 4y ago
The amount of data Spotify has on user behavior must be awe-inducing. Not that I'm complaining, the Algorithm has shown me plenty of good music that I would have missed otherwise. Seeing the data analyzed like this and the results published publicly is pretty cool!
I just wish sometimes there would be better ways to feed Spotify data on my preferences. I have a running playlist for example that I listen to over and over -- that does not mean I enjoy the genre 'DnB at 175BPM' so much that I want the same kind of music in my Discover Weekly.
It would be great if there either was a 'mood' you could set to say: I'm now listening to stuff that's only relevant in this context and shouldn't pollute other 'moods'; or if you could at least mark playlists as 'do not track'. I suspect you could already hide individual listening sessions from the data collection by making it a private session (would make sense at least, though I haven't checked), but who would remember to do that consistently, especially given how you need to set that switch manually in the settings.
- myroon5 4y ago+1, had to switch to another app for white noise to sleep at night after my discover weekly became exclusively color noise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise)
- Eldt 4y agoThat's hilarious, but also highlights a good point in our lack of control/observability into these algorithms
- hackernewds 4y agoThe idea is that consumers don't know themselves as well as they could - you could argue either way.
- jeiejejjbv 4y agoFYI you can mark sessions as private and the data won't flow into recommendations
- moehm 4y agoI discovered this feature by random. Probably they should make it more clear.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoI think anyone who has DM'd a game of D&D and used Spotify knows the pain of having your Discover Weekly taken over by "Epic Battlegrounds - The Drums of War 16: Dragons in the Sky"