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by mrmondo 3198 days ago
Hmm, got a lot of very poor recommendations when trying various realistic combinations, the recommendation engine seems to promote pop music very heavily and doesn’t seem to consider lesser played tracks fairly in its analysis. Both Apple Music and pandora do a pretty good job of this by comparison.
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This is true. I wish we had their entire playlist library!

This was trained on playlists we scraped from Spotify, so by definition pop music is going to be heavily represented. We are still playing with the training parameters and algorithm for building the playlists.

We also have some ideas on including "rare" or new tracks, but haven't gotten to that part yet.

Thanks for checking it out!