| (Please see the reply I left to Krasnol). So, if you just gave me a search-bar and have me play music, it would be post-rock or metal. And what I get on spotify is a bunch of post rock and black/death metal. Which is fine, but predictable and kinda boring. But youtube manages to recommend to me things that aren't in my alley, but I somehow end up loving. (just a random sample from music)
"Heilung - Lifa" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BsKIP4uYM "The caretaker at the end of time" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWksPWDKOc&t=10573s "Babe Rainbow - Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest" - https://youtu.be/lh2qHxUDt6o?t=26 A whole new genre called DungeonSynth - https://youtu.be/E9R-vzIe8x0 And one called Witchhouse - https://youtu.be/6XIlNP-c4Ds And Sovietwave goth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZZSyO28RUg Uhh, drum n bass n sax?? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G55GspnNkBo And the latest weird recommendation a San Jose band called Sunami. Oh And This! - https://youtu.be/cIMKJ43TFLs?t=76
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I wouldn't be searching for any of that on my own. But I love all of it (ended buying merch from quite a few "youtube recommended" artists). To me that is as successful a recommendation system as it can be. It shows me things I didn't even know I 'd love! From Jazz, to Funk, to Ambient, to SovietWave goth, to psychedelic rock, the list is always expanding.... I was never that open minded, but now I am. Maybe this is more on me and how my personality evolved through the years than on youtube's recommendations... --- But you can see that many people had the same happen to them by how popular comments like this are -> "You didnt find this video. It found you." Or "I would love to know what I did to make this come up in my suggested videos. Holy shit this is awesome!" Curious, ain't it? |
Also in either case, I'm pretty sure, the vast majority of songs out there have sub 10k views and basically never get recommended. Just top of mind a few songs, that based on the list above you might like, but I think I would never have discovered via algorithms, unless I already happend to start quite close.
Roel Funcken - Balaklavskiy prospex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7WVGwb-9x8
Subheim - Foray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ7IHYSrquc
Klez.E - Nachtfahrt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi-8wkccjsw
Altın Gün - Cemalim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_J3-yr9GNI
Ok, the last one is fairly large, but it came to mind :) I do discover quite a bit of new music on YouTube, but only when I deliberately select a starting song and go from there, on the main page there is rarely something interesting. If there is music at all. I'm sure it would get a lot better if I'd listen music primarily via YouTube.