This is the exact functionality I want from the suggestion algorithm from Spotify etc., not whatever bullshit metrics and way they have been doing until now because it fucking sucks…no, liking one track from an artist does not mean I like anything else from them, actually more often than not it’s only that one single track I enjoy.
God fucking same. It’s got to be hard as fuck because I haven’t seen anyone able to do it. Pandora used to claim they were trying to do that with their music genome project but they just kind of never went anywhere with it and it slowly morphed into a shitty hidden algorithm just like every other place. To be fair though I find people are also terrible at it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked for recommendations for songs similar to one I really vibed with and the recs I get are literally nothing like the song. It’s especially bad in the various genres of techno. Recently I wanted a way to find acid techno, but like more acid, but there’s no words to describe that that will lead me to the music I’m looking for. Language sucks sometimes.
I think it’s also just such a hard thing to boil down why one person vibes with a given song. And I’d bet the why probably changes even for the same person and the same song over time.
I think Pandora had the right idea, but a thumbs up gave an equal thumbs up to all aspects of a song even if you really liked a song despite some aspects of it.
They needed an interface for songs that you had liked that looked like an equalizer or maybe a color wheel and would let you give higher ratings certain aspects of a song and lower ratings to another.
Instead, if you gave a thumbs up to an acoustic version of a song that just happened to be recorded as part of the live event or concert (I’m looking at you Layla) then every one of your channels would be filled with nothing but shitty ass live versions of everything.
This is the exact functionality I want from the suggestion algorithm from Spotify etc., not whatever bullshit metrics and way they have been doing until now because it fucking sucks…no, liking one track from an artist does not mean I like anything else from them, actually more often than not it’s only that one single track I enjoy.
God fucking same. It’s got to be hard as fuck because I haven’t seen anyone able to do it. Pandora used to claim they were trying to do that with their music genome project but they just kind of never went anywhere with it and it slowly morphed into a shitty hidden algorithm just like every other place. To be fair though I find people are also terrible at it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked for recommendations for songs similar to one I really vibed with and the recs I get are literally nothing like the song. It’s especially bad in the various genres of techno. Recently I wanted a way to find acid techno, but like more acid, but there’s no words to describe that that will lead me to the music I’m looking for. Language sucks sometimes.
I think it’s also just such a hard thing to boil down why one person vibes with a given song. And I’d bet the why probably changes even for the same person and the same song over time.
I think Pandora had the right idea, but a thumbs up gave an equal thumbs up to all aspects of a song even if you really liked a song despite some aspects of it.
They needed an interface for songs that you had liked that looked like an equalizer or maybe a color wheel and would let you give higher ratings certain aspects of a song and lower ratings to another.
Instead, if you gave a thumbs up to an acoustic version of a song that just happened to be recorded as part of the live event or concert (I’m looking at you Layla) then every one of your channels would be filled with nothing but shitty ass live versions of everything.
Makes a lot of sense. There are just so many “features” to a song, we’d have to determine what ones to use to capture all the most important aspects.