6/17/2023 0 Comments Pi music player lastfm scrobbler![]() ![]() Maybe the domain of expert-level statisticians and experts-at-musical-knowledge-of-many-genres just don't overlap that much? It's hard to imagine you could do it truly well without content-level processing, not just user histories and connection graphs. Surface level similarities seems to be all you get, and I constantly get recommendations that a human would've stopped giving me years ago. I believe that you certainly could figure out a smarter approach, with enough careful thought, domain knowledge, and effort but. without realizing it's always a different 20%" saw. Isn't that the definition of "worse"? "Never able to be tailored to your unique preferences" when a human could take that feedback in a single sentence and adjust? It's like the old "everyone wants to remake Excel since they realize 80% of users only use 20% of it. > It's not that the algo is any worse than human recommendations, it's just that it's an average of all humans likes, which will never fit your exact personal unique preferences because they aren't you. If those bands don't work, try Blind Guardian and Stormkeep Blotted Science and Nile are the only technicalish bands I know off the top of my head. People who listen to both Black Sabbath and Blotted Science also listen to Nile, so this person will most likely like Nile". They most likely will like Slipknot, another popular metal band" instead of "This person listens to Black Sabbath and Blotted Science. They also listen to a lot of Blotted Science, which is also a metal band. Spotify says "oh this person listens to Black Sabbath which is a popular metal band. The point is more that Spotify supposedly recommends without taking into account what people actually listen to. They're not saying Black Sabbath is really technical instrumental metal but that someone who listens to Black Sabbath AND ALSO likes really technical instrumental, is probably not looking to listen to Slipknot (though I suppose that could depend on the technical to Black Sabbath ratio). I think you might have misunderstood the parent a bit. Almost all metalheads adore Black Sabbath, because they wrote fantastic songs > That's just thinly disguised metal snobbery. I just went over to music-map right now, and sure enough, black sabbath and slipknot don't overlap, even when you do searches of the bands individually, let alone if you enter multiple bands. When you say "my three favorite bands are", you're not going to see slipknot show up in the result list, because people who mentioned those technical bands tended not to like slipknot.īut if you go to spotify and listen to sabbath, you'll see slipknot recommendations, because there is overlap, right? While some people who like slipknot may like black sabbath, but even less will be aware of really technically advanced instrumental metal. Spotify, for example, recommends music that it thinks is related, but not necessarily liked by both groups of people.įor example, a person who likes Black Sabbath, and really technical instrumental metal, probably doesn't like the comparatively simpler slipknot. ![]() But for me, having an organized and consistent library is very important, so in the end I went with Foobar.That's the way works, and it is absolutely fantastic.īut no, that is NOT the way these other services recommend things. Great customization, nice EQ/DSP options, plenty of theme options. If I didn't have said issues with PlayerPro, I'd 100% recommend. I haven't gone back to PlayerPro for two, probably three years, so maybe the issues I had with PlayerPro have been sorted out. You can also find skins online that make the Foobar UI a little more clean. I'm currently using Foobar along with the last.fm app on my Pixel 3. I've never had issues with my tags, duplicate albums, missing artwork/artist names. So, I switched to Foobar for Android because it's simple and straight forward. But my library (and metadata) on my computer was totally fine (using foobar2000 - no duplicate or missing artists/albums). (Bunch of album/artists names just disappeared? And albums duplicated - it was weird and frustrating). I used to be a PlayerPro user for years until one of the updates decided it didn't like a bunch of ID3 tags and something.
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