medjuck Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 After you've played through a chosen album on Spotify it will continue playing random songs in the genre of the album. It's often led me to interesting music I've never heard before . Yesterday at the gym I was listening to Mile's Davis' '57 Amsterdam concert (sounded like a needle drop) after which I got cuts from Ellington's Blues in Orbit, Charle's Lloyd's Of Course, Of Course, Horace Silver's Sabu, Gil Melle's New Faces, Bird's Nows the Time, Bobby Hutcherson's Candy, The Duke Plays Ellington, Sonny with the MJQ (Prestige), The Peaceful Side of Billy Strayhorn, Gil Melle again, but then Eric Dolphy's The Illinois Concert with Something Sweet, Something Tender seemingly segueing into Trane's You Don't Know What Love Is. The latter two played so perfectly together that I began to wonder if some hip jazz dj had done the programming. I've always presumed that it was done by an algorithm or AI but now I wonder. (BTW If you play the same album at another time it will be followed by the same songs.) Anyone know how this is done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub Modal Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 Algorithm based on genre and metadata of the user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted January 12 Author Report Share Posted January 12 I just read that Spotify is now using AI to create playlists. From the article I read, I inferred (perhaps incorrectly) that until now they've employed humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted January 12 Report Share Posted January 12 In their last batch of layoffs in December, Spotify, unbelievably, got rid of thousands of key people. I was especially a fan of Glenn McDonald who was an incredible and very creative programmer for them. After wondering why they would get rid of such people, I had hunches that the big bosses were thinking that AI might be able to do their jobs. I’m giving it some time to see what will be offered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 On 1/11/2024 at 6:01 PM, medjuck said: I just read that Spotify is now using AI to create playlists. From the article I read, I inferred (perhaps incorrectly) that until now they've employed humans. The playlists I assumed were human-created (though maybe not anymore). but the “random play” thing you describe would not be human-created, it’d be algorithmic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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