[jobu]

Interesting. I've been thinking about switching to Apple Music to have a bit more control over my music. Spotify puts out some amazing curated playlists that are constantly being updated, but then after a few weeks those playlists suddenly turn to shit.

My theory is that they have a few people manually curate a list with good songs for a while to train an AI, but when they finally turn control over to the AI it falls on its face and starts adding shitty cover band music to the list.

[hbosch]

You will appreciate Every Noise at Once[0] maybe. It's all AI, but uses data from a massive set of users. It maps all chartable Spotify genres, and groups them into 3 playlists each. So for the genre, say "classic french pop"[1], you'd click in and see all the associated bands within that genre and see Spotify playlist links – they are:

The Sound of Classic French Pop – A sampling of music that defines the genre

The Pulse of Classic French Pop – Music that is often played by people who listen to lots of Classic French Pop

The Edge of Classic French Pop – New or obscure music recommended for people who like Classic French Pop

It's an incredibly deep web of playlists and music recommendations that has completely changed the way I experience Spotify. Highly highly recommend.

__

0. http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

1. http://everynoise.com/engenremap-classicfrenchpop.html

[CamperBob2]

Hmm. This is pretty damned cool. I'd subscribe to Spotify if this were a real interface to its catalog.

[jeppebemad]

I agree - Very cool! Under playlists you can launch in Spotify a playlist of every genre. Is that what you were missing?

Thanks parent!

[thirdsun]

This is fantastic. As someone who loves digital crate digging and to explore Discogs's world of niche releases and subgenres I was always disappointed with the rather superficial discoverability in larger, more popular music services.

Thanks.

[eshvk]

> My theory is that they have a few people manually curate a list with good songs for a while to train an AI, but when they finally turn control over to the AI it falls on its face and starts adding shitty cover band music to the list.

A curated playlist (not discover weekly or release radar for example) is editorially curated and driven by a human. Doesn't involve an AI for now.

[lostlogin]

Even your own playlist go rotten. They periodically change song order or (presumably because of rights being negotiated or something) songs disappear. I got so paranoid I took a screenshot to help convince me of sanity. I may not be sane but orders change and songs go missing.

[mattnewton]

It could be that, for some genres, they start with the greatest hits and then have to scrape further and further towards the bottom of the barrel