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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
by 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 ago2 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 agoYou 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 agoI don't necessarily want to ban a song, just have it not play it every tenth song.