tconrad Wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm the CTO over at Pandora and have been a Slim Devices customer for > years and years -- just recently replaced a pair of SliMP3's with new > Squeezeboxen. > > Here's the scoop: you're hearing Britney or whatever because sometimes > our recommendations aren't perfect. That's the whole story. We work > hard to get it right, but sometimes we just get it wrong. Every single > song you hear is dictacted by mathmatics -- you can't buy your way into > the Music Genome or into a playlist. Period. > > We are subject to song and artist repetition rules set forth in the > statutory licenses in the DMCA but that something that's also true of > every other Internet radio service. These rules are called the > "performance complement" and say that we cannot play in a three hour > period: > > * more than three songs from a particular album, including no more than > two consecutively > > * four songs by a particular artist or box set > > We've just recently enhanced our playlist algorithm in a way that we > hope will thwart some of this. Here's what we've done: we look for > patterns in the aggregate feedback on a particular station. So let's > say that we're playing Spears on a Radiohead station. Pretty quickly > the Radiohead listeners make it clear that the song doesn't work for > them as a group. When enough feedback aggregates we stop playing that > song in that context. It takes some time for these effects to kick in > for a station, but once it does a lot of these strange matches get > pulled automatically. Of course your thumbs down on a song will ban it > from that station with one click. > > That's it. Honestly. If you hear stuff on your stations that makes you > scratch your head and wonder what's going on, drop me a note at > tomconrad-at-gmail-dot-com and I'll be happy to chat about it. > > > Tom Conrad > CTO @ Pandora
As your customer base increases, I imagine you could do regression analyses based on how users rate tracks and group artists. This could combine with your incumbent algorithms to make your service even better/smarter. Thanks for the response. I'm actually very happy with the service and have recommended it to my friends. -- rudholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24659 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
