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But Spotify has that as well. Tons of user curated playlists. And although user playback data is harder to parse through, it's also pretty straightforward to bu
by xmprt 4mo ago
But Spotify has that as well. Tons of user curated playlists. And although user playback data is harder to parse through, it's also pretty straightforward to build some clustering algorithm where if you both like X then you might like Y as well.
- athrow 4mo agoSpotify is pay to win (play) - especially user curated ones playlists.
- hylaride 4mo agoMy theory is that they don't have the incentive. Apple Genius was ridiculously good at music discovery, too. I shudder to think how much I spent on iTunes songs via genius over its run. But now that apple/spotify/etc get my monthly dollars either way, there's no huge incentive for them to create the discovery systems.
- HDBaseT 4mo agoThe incentive (for Spotify) is to make you consume the least amount of media, since every stream requires CDN and Bandwidth costs, plus royalties.