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Originally posted by Cannon
Mine doesn't suit me, and I'd rather not listen to music chosen by a computer thank you very much!
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The algorithms behind Discover Weekly finds users who have built playlists featuring the songs and artists you love. I
t then goes through songs that a number of your kindred spirits have added to playlists but you haven’t heard, knowing there is a good chance you might like them, too. Finally, it uses your taste profile to filter those findings by your areas of affinity and exploration. Because the playlist, that explicit act of curation, is both the source of the signal and the final output, the technique can achieve results far more interesting than run of the mill collaborative filtering.
It’s still humans who are doing the song selection and arranging, but instead of outside experts, it’s users like you and me. Generating a human-curated playlist for each of Spotify’s users would be a challenge of mammoth proportion. "We probably can’t hire enough editors to do that," says Ogle. So Spotify uses each of its users as one cog in a company-wide curatorial machine.
"The answer was staring us in the face: playlists, since the beginning, have been more or less the basic currency of Spotify.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/94...tion-interview
