Way back when Last.FM has its own radio service, I could throw a few random genres and/or artists at it, and it would recommend me pretty much exactly want I wanted every time. I gladly enabled scrobbling in my music players, and it tended to recommend me good stuff every time. Ever since its radio feature got killed, its database has been getting worse and worse. Just now, I tried to search for some things it used to be good at finding, and the artists section was not filled with artists at all, but rather a bunch of what appear to be random playlists with incomplete metadata.
Pandora had decent algorithms for recommending things, but it had such a small library that it would frequently repeat the same handful of albums for anything I searched for. This irks me, as I hate wearing out good music.
Spotify is currently where I keep my weeks-long playlists that I've built over the past couple decades. Even with such large playlists as input for their radio recommendations, Spotify doesn't do a very good job recommending new music either.
Whatever happened to the good databases and their algorithms? They definitely used to exist.
Pandora had decent algorithms for recommending things, but it had such a small library that it would frequently repeat the same handful of albums for anything I searched for. This irks me, as I hate wearing out good music.
Spotify is currently where I keep my weeks-long playlists that I've built over the past couple decades. Even with such large playlists as input for their radio recommendations, Spotify doesn't do a very good job recommending new music either.
Whatever happened to the good databases and their algorithms? They definitely used to exist.