When Spotify recommends "new" artists to you based on who you have (allegedly) been listening to .. (weird connections, OTM recommends, or "duh" ones)

Spotify recs are much better/more interesting than Amazon ime.

more importantly in my case, amazon knows what i look for to buy. Spotify doesn't know the difference between listening for pleasure and investigating out of morbid curiosity.

― da croupier, Sunday, October 12, 2014 4:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Spotify knows what you listen to over and over again. Amazon doesn't automatically know if you liked something or not.

I put it down to the perhaps fanciful idea that it is not designed to recommend really, it is instead intended to successfully imitate one of those people who say things "You like music, then you must like such and such" or "you play a musical instrument!? So does my neighbor's cousin, you should meet them and form a band!"

― Bobby Ono Bland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, October 12, 2014 12:18 PM (1 hour ago)

lol

I don't get these from Spotify anymore.

Their DW algorithm is on a roll right now, at least for me.

Gloria Ann Taylor - Deep Inside of You https://youtu.be/yF2Y4boaV8A
Anchorsong - Butterflies https://youtu.be/b0HZooDAfws
Rare Silk - Storm https://youtu.be/AQZESJ2Pga8

It's a shame that Spotify only looks at actual listened, I really liked Deezer where you can specifically mark favourite artists and songs (which their heuristics then takes into account). I marked about 100 of my favourite artists and immediately their recommendations were spot on. If I want that info into Spotify I'd have make a playlist with those 100 artists and play that on repeat at night or something.