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Spotify seems to have mastered music recommendation. It would be great if somebody could reverse engineer their recommendation algo
by tremarley 8mo ago
Spotify seems to have mastered music recommendation.
It would be great if somebody could reverse engineer their recommendation algo
- deklesen 8mo agoActually, I find Spotify horrible for finding new music outside my bubble that i like. YouTube works much, MUCH better for me for this purpose.
- chrisweekly 7mo agoInteresting. Spotify works almost perfectly for my discovery needs. I just pick a track I know that fits my mood, then use the (3-dot menu) "Go to Radio" option, which leads to a playlist that usually includes tracks and/or artists new to me. It's been a reliable discovery mechanism for me for many years. Also, there's a new feature I first saw within the last week, a "non-personalized" option that increases the "new to me" ratio.
- plaguuuuuu 7mo agothe "you might also like" for a given artist is usually the most generic related artists - for anything remotely related you'll get basically the same list which is the middle of the venn diagram of everyone who listens to them
- aworks 7mo agoHmm, just tried the non-personalized option for the first time. Is it a reflection on me that I may prefer it over "personalized"?
- jmye 7mo agoI always find this interesting… Spotify is phenomenal for me - about every third Monday Discovery playlist has two or three hits, which feels like a pretty solid ratio, at this point. YouTube has never suggested a single thing I cared for. I wonder if it’s a curation thing? I’ve been with Spotify since the first day it was available, and rarely use YouTube. I haven’t had a good music ratio as good since newsgroups and (real) forums a decade ago, which were a different form of curation.