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Both Spotify and Apple Music algos have no idea about music mood vs time of the day vs activity. Like late evening before sleep being perhaps not a good moment
by chewz 4y ago
Both Spotify and Apple Music algos have no idea about music mood vs time of the day vs activity. Like late evening before sleep being perhaps not a good moment for heavy metal. And running not a right time for slow classical music.
Which is weird in case of Apple Music because Apple knows exactly if I am sleeping, running or driving a car - just from reading my watch.
- ChildOfChaos 4y agoIsn't that more just you thing though? Why isn't late evening before sleep good for heavy metal? I listen to the same music I listen to all day before sleep if I had music on. The music I listen too doesn't change no matter where I am or the time of the day.
- huffmsa 4y agoWhat that really means is that they either: 1) aren't doing the sensor fusion we all think they are, out of inability to access the data. 2) the models (and therefore modelers) aren't good enough to use the data they have correctly.
- chillchilla 4y agoOr 3) they run loads of A/B experiments to optimize engagement or some target metric and they've reached a local minima and are unable to escape it without a lot of political will or Product Managers willing to stick their necks out.
- geoduck14 4y ago>Both Spotify and Apple Music algos have no idea about music mood vs time of the day vs activity. You say that, but I attended a conference with Spotify- they are specifically working on that problem now.
- AlecSchueler 4y agoIf they're working on it then the point still stands that they don't currently have it as part of their product. Time of day aware recommendations is something YouTube seems to have had for years. It always knows what to give me up top based on if I'm sitting down for dinner or lunch or if I'm looking for an audiobook for bed etc
- musictubes 4y agoGoogle Play music had that feature. I really miss it.