• Overzeetop@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Pandora's entire reason for being was essentially a ML (/AI) exercise to fingerprint and associate music. It's still pretty brilliant, really.

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        I've been a paying subscriber since 2007 and it's given me so much new music I'd never have heard of without it.

        Oddly enough, regardless of the station, it'll play me some Johnny Cash. Metal station? Johnny Cash. Punk station? Johnny Cash. Funk station? Believe it or not, Johnny Cash. I have the best Pandora in the world thanks to Johnny Cash.

    • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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      So has Spotify, and off and on the enable or disable easy access. In the past it was Spotify stations (standalone app), for a while you could create recommendation playlists based on artists, genres, or decades. Now they do it for you by making playlists like those themselves, “mix” playlists, “day list”, suggestions in shuffle, never ending playlists, and a bunch of other similar things that attempt to select things they think you’ll like.

      Every Noise at Once shows some of the linkages using a ton of their dynamically generated genre playlists: https://everynoise.com/