An anonymous reader shares a report Spotify is the most popular music streaming service in the world While its algorithmic recommendations aren't necessarily the reason, its reach has meant that hundreds of millions of people are being fed a steady diet of music curated by a machine The algorithm failed musicthis is the stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world For more on how to break free of the algorithm and discover things you love, follow terrence o’brien The stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8am et
Opt in for the stepback here How it started i used to have this ritual Every tuesday, i would get off the. Recent discussions have highlighted significant shortcomings in music recommendation algorithms, raising questions about their The algorithm failed music | the verge algorithmic music recommendations failed to cut through the noise and just served us up slop. Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away
The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened. I would pop into other music, buy a new cd (or three…) and then walk the rest of the way to the staten island ferry listening to my new cd Even if there wasn't a new record out that week that i was looking forward to, i would buy som … read the full story at the verge.
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