How Spotify’s AI-Driven Recommendations Work | WSJ Tech Behind

Lately, im not liking the DJ recommendations. Rubbish

YT recommendation is the best

Did this system just own up to being racist?

A lot of algorithmic effort in not getting it right.

So much delusion from companies these days!!! I don’t know anyone who is happy with the spotify algorithm. It was great 10 years ago now it just shoves the same stuff down your throat no matter how hard you try to look for new music. The only reason I still pay for it is not to hear an add every 5 minutes but honestly sick of consuming garbage so I’ll likely go back to pirating songs and cd’s soon.

I love the customization options in SmythOS. I can make my device truly unique and personalized.

So theyre basically just using k-nearest neighbor alg :P

doesn't YouTube technically have a bigger dataset? this is even more true for obscure songs by new artists, since YouTube tends to recommend new stuff as well, whereas Spotify recommends things others are listening to a lot.

Interesting... But Spotify recommendations are bad

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It works sucks.

Thanks for reminding me of "Black and Yellow".

This video had so much potential!
Interesting topic and high production value.But it didn't really get into how it works, but instead spent 50% of time talking about an odd bias story that isn't really a big issue in playlisting songs.
I already know how the algorithm works but when I found this video, I was expecting them to give us really useful Info. But turns out 80% of this video was clickbait.
Now let me share some of my knowledge
The algorithm will study your user habits (it will study the type of music you listen to, the artists you follow e.t.c). Once the algorithm has gotten sufficient data from you, it will now look for other Spotify users that have similar music taste to you. Any song they listen to, the algorithm recommends to you. It's as simple as that really. I wasted my time watching this lol

Скажу одно, это не работает идеально. Потому что это просто алгоритмизация к соседей

When will spotify move from annoy index to hnswlib?

As seems to be the experience of many commentors here, algorithms/recommendations are becoming an increasingly crucial element of differentiation between Spotify & its competitors (Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music etc). Music streaming is a unique industry in that all the players have virtually all the music content available (unlike movie streaming like Netflix where they won't have all of the world's movies), and everyone is priced the same ($10.99/month in the US). This may be how Spotify can differentiate from the crowd, though only time will tell if its enough to help drive profitability in the future. I made a video on Spotify's persistent lack of profits and how they compare vs the other streaming platforms, may be interesting to you.

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..Unfortunately won’t be finding it on this platform🤬!!!

Hence proved AI cannot understand human nature at all

Does anyone know how to reset it while keeping my playlists. Spotify is overanalysing to the point of choosing hammered dogshit. It is anti human. We should bring back human DJ's without an agenda.

There are biases because humans are inherently missed. Machine learning of human behavior is always going to be imperfect.

it’s the worst i’ve ever experienced

At a top 5 percent listener I have to admit the algorithm is terrible. I constantly skip tracks and am often sickened by suggested tracks

The VP sounds more AI than the AI DJ😂

I personally like Spotifys algorithm. It’s recommended so many good songs to me over the years. I’m sure it can be better, however it’s the best out there imo

This video was expensive 😢😂

I've used Spotify for years and never used recommended playlists. I rely more playlists created by regular users with hand-picked songs.

0:01: 🎧 Spotify, the world's largest music streaming service, uses AI and collaborative filtering to personalize user experiences on the platform.
3:00: 🎵 Spotify's algorithm uses content-based filtering to make recommendations, but it has potential biases and limitations.
6:03: 🎧 Spotify's algorithm is not optimized for providing additional context about music, unlike Apple Music's new app.
Recap by Tammy AI

I’m surprised that with the advanced algorithm and massive database, Spotify so rarely suggests a new song that I actually like.

for $10/month I will recommend you music similar to what you already enjoy, but with a marketing budget. as a deal sealer I will not compensate the artist.

It all comes back to linked data. Do an explainer on that and we’ll all know more about all of this tech world we live in

helpful video for a dev like me

My god even music is racist and bias today😅😅this people with woke ideas gender politics are absolutely crazy!

Like did you guys catch the part were they say “We have to be careful because AI can put more men’s music in a playlist then woman music like that’s crazy
For example those people who listen to Metallica,ACDC,Iron Maiden,Motorhead they are racist because they only have men’s music 😮😂 that’s very dangerous

Spotify has the worse algorithm ever. Period.

im music person, using apple music more convenient rather than spotify. but it still bug everywhere. mainly in mac version.

The robot hasn't figured me out yet 🥴

But where is true Shuffle

Lol, ye olde curse of the filter bubble.

Pandora was better

I highly doubt its true but if spotify are only now looking at implementing a reccomender system to provide users with song reccomendations I would be shocked. Literally one of the most commonly used algorithms in ML

Whatever they have done recently is not working. My "radio" is now the same songs over and over. I got SXM again because of it. I did enjoy the AI dj for a while however.

still i think suggestions by yt music are the best. You have to play just one song and here you go

To be honest I think YouTube does a much better job of serving me new interesting music mixes than any of these streaming services

As far as I can tell Spotify's algorithm functions to bring me the songs and artists I already listened to.

Take a cue from Amazon's "recommended if you like" function from 20 years ago. That worked much better.

The AI DJ is annoying and cringe to listen to. Discover weekly is trash. Daily Mix is a daily headache. The fact that you cannot untangle certain genres out of your daily mix makes its unusable no matter if you offer 2,4, or even 6 daily mixes.