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Florent V.@ogustin
Awesome feature ! Just a question : why did you call these playlists Daily Mix 1,2,3... and did you not give them a genre as name ? I find it difficult to identify the common denominator of each playlist.
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Lucas Lazaro@lucaslazaro · UX Researcher at TaqtileBr
@ogustin According to @flaneur interview on fastcompany: "[...] internal user studies showed that naming these lists after genres ("My Daily Hip-Hop Mix," for instance) altered people's expectations and complicated the experience. Instead, successive lists are named as simply as possible: Your Daily Mix 1, Your Daily Mix 2, and so forth." Read the whole thin… See more
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Pietz Prove@gopietz · Media Computer Science Student
@lucaslazaro @ogustin @flaneur i'd like to hear a little more reasoning behind this. sure its as "simple" as possible, but its also as meaningless as possible.
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Florent V.@ogustin
@lucaslazaro @flaneur Thanks for your answer. I understand their purpose, but as @gopietz points it out, it is really meaningless (+ you can find the main genre by looking at the artists)
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Matthew Ogle@flaneur · Spotify Product Lead
@ogustin @lucaslazaro @gopietz Yes, that's the point ;) The inside scoop: mix groupings are personalized and unique, and may often fail to adhere strictly to genre (but they capture something else about the relationships between the artists you play a lot). By focusing on what artists are inside, without labels, we found people could point and go "oh, that… See more
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Pietz Prove@gopietz · Media Computer Science Student
@flaneur @ogustin @lucaslazaro thanks for the honest explanation! these smart machine learning algorithms can group by something we dont even have words for :)
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Matthew Ogle@flaneur · Spotify Product Lead
@gopietz @ogustin @lucaslazaro Indeed! And at the same time, strict genre definitions are becoming less useful / relevant in music culture overall. Makes for interesting challenges... :)
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David D. LaCroix@daviddlacroix · Director of Operations, Versatile PhD
@ogustin @flaneur As somebody with a varied set of tastes (like me) I really dig the sorting. When I started using Spotify, I was double-dipping: listening both from streaming sources and from a local drive full of music. That mean that on the streaming side, I gravitated toward music that I liked but didn't own. In effect, I seeded my listening history v… See more
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