I hear that Spotify uses technology to learn what you like and gives really good music recommendations. I haven't used Spotify lately but I am intrigued by this. A couple questions:
1. Is it all bullshit? Like, is it any different from how any other streaming platform recommends music?
2. How are these recommendations laid out? Into albums, or a playlist, or what?
3. Have you legitimately found new music you love you wouldn't have found without Spotify?
4. How do these algorithms work if it's not bullshit?
Spotify algorithms?
Camden Morales
Julian Cook
its more for notmies than ppl who already know how to search out music they like
Charles Jackson
1. i dont know about other platforms. spotify is good at reccing music based on playlists for example. if i make a playlist with a couple of songs it will rec me songs to add to that (and these usually fit quite well.
2. as above, playlist suggestions, also you have your weekly mixes (at least 5 i believe, sorted by your favorite genres. so lets say i listen to lots of future bass, the first weekly mix will be future bass artists.
3. yes, lots of it.
4. they collect data from people that save songs or put them in their playlists (maybe also by counting listening time). i guess they then make taste profiles of peoples tastes and compare them to you. sorta like "if you liked this, youll probably like that, since x amount of users also like that band you like.
Noah Hall
Yeah? How do you find music then?
Josiah Rivera
*also theres the song/artist radios. you can go on a song's "radio" and it will infinetely play music similar to that song/artist.
Colton Scott
Yes it works extremely well. You get a "discover weekly" playlist every monday that gives you like 50 tracks it think you will like. You also get more genre specific recommendations on the discover page. You also can get reccs based on any playlist you make. Just make a playlist and it will recc songs below the playlist that it thinks fit.
false. it recommends extremely obscure stuff as long as it fits what you listen to. I almost never get recommendations of major artists even in the genres that all my recs are for. I;ve found probably hundreds of artists through various Spotify algo methods over the last few years. It's not as good for obscure stuff in older genres, e.g. I never find any 70's prog I haven't heard through there because none of those bands have been together in 30 years so their stuff isn't uploaded, but for more current genres it's really good.
Oliver Morgan
So will these algorithms work if I just press the thumbs up buttons on songs and albums? I'm not much into making playlists but I like the idea of artificial intelligence making one for me
Grayson Phillips
What genres are you talking about here? I tried using it and it threw only very surface level stuff or genres I've never listened to at me.
Levi Williams
It works by analysing the music you listen to a lot then making weekly playlists for you. So just listen to your music
Aaron Robinson
Okay, thanks user