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I still don't get why after all this investment in AI Spotify can't just give me a seamless never ending stream of music. I need to keep selecting from playlist

I still don't get why after all this investment in AI Spotify can't just give me a seamless never ending stream of music. I need to keep selecting from playlists they generate which often repeat some songs extremely often. All I want from a Spotify interface is play/pause/skip/like/dislike. Then use those to continuously adapt the selection of the next song. If you want to be fancy add a warmup mode where you ask me some questions or show me some songs to like/dislike for that particular moment so that the initial selections start warmer. If I had that I could explore a lot more music. Because I don't I end up just listening to the greatest hits of things I remember and then that further pollutes the dataset to the point where my musical tastes must stagnate.

thenewwazoo 2y ago
You’ve described Pandora.
- stavros 2y ago
  Is it available outside the US yet? It's only been a decade.
- ericwood 2y ago
  It’s been a decade at least since I heavily used Pandora but I remember it being even worse than Spotify at this. The algorithm seemed to latch on to one or two tracks from any given artist and they’d continue popping up no matter how I trained it. Great as a discovery tool for artists I guess, but as endless radio Spotify does a way better job at least trying to reach into back catalogs and including more than one or two songs. There’s still a lot of room for improvement, and it does seem to get hung up in similar ways. Maybe Pandora has improved since.
  - notesinthefield 2y ago
    2 of my favorite Pandora stations have turned into a mix of the artist’s discog and I suspect it only happened because I liked too many of their songs in the same day. The variety is better in terms of similar artists but I cant say I find much new music this way.
  - nostrademons 2y ago
    You can ban a particular song from appearing on a Pandora station. I've found this to be an effective way to get out of song ruts. The algorithm does have a tendency to replay certain songs more than is warranted, but if you get rid of them it recovers into a state with a decent amount of variety.
    - SamBam 2y ago
      I don't necessarily want to ban a song, just have it not play it every tenth song.
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tripdout 2y ago
Spotify's song radio / artist radio does this. There's like/dislike buttons and it just plays you different related songs.

thenewwazoo 2y ago

You’ve described Pandora.

stavros 2y ago
Is it available outside the US yet? It's only been a decade.
ericwood 2y ago
It’s been a decade at least since I heavily used Pandora but I remember it being even worse than Spotify at this. The algorithm seemed to latch on to one or two tracks from any given artist and they’d continue popping up no matter how I trained it. Great as a discovery tool for artists I guess, but as endless radio Spotify does a way better job at least trying to reach into back catalogs and including more than one or two songs. There’s still a lot of room for improvement, and it does seem to get hung up in similar ways. Maybe Pandora has improved since.
- notesinthefield 2y ago
  2 of my favorite Pandora stations have turned into a mix of the artist’s discog and I suspect it only happened because I liked too many of their songs in the same day. The variety is better in terms of similar artists but I cant say I find much new music this way.
- nostrademons 2y ago
  You can ban a particular song from appearing on a Pandora station. I've found this to be an effective way to get out of song ruts. The algorithm does have a tendency to replay certain songs more than is warranted, but if you get rid of them it recovers into a state with a decent amount of variety.
  - SamBam 2y ago
    I don't necessarily want to ban a song, just have it not play it every tenth song.

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tripdout 2y ago

Spotify's song radio / artist radio does this. There's like/dislike buttons and it just plays you different related songs.