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Testing Spotify's virtual radio host – the service curates a stream of songs I've heard before. Do I really need this?

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Tags: sweden, streaming, music, spotify, apps, features, artificial intelligence, openai, curation, personalization, dj.radio, playlists, xavier jernigan, reviews, author.alaina demopoulos
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/01/spotify-ai-dj-service-testing

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Title
Last night AI DJ saved my life? Testing Spotify's virtual radio host
Authors
Alaina Demopoulos
Published
Mar 2 2023
Word count
698 words

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  1. Greg
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    Adding in the DJ commentary is the precise opposite of what I want, but that's fine, it's an optional feature and I'm sure some people will like it. The general repetitiveness in Spotify...

    Adding in the DJ commentary is the precise opposite of what I want, but that's fine, it's an optional feature and I'm sure some people will like it.

    The general repetitiveness in Spotify recommendations that the author touches on really isn't fine, though. It seems like there's been a noticeable dip in quality over the last 3-6 months, and I'd be interested to know if others have noticed the same? I used to hold Spotify up as an example of personalisation done well, with a really good mix of things I knew and liked, new things similar enough that I'd like them, and a bit of risk taking that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't but was still very worthwhile.

    Nowadays my experience with the daily & weekly mixes is similar to the author's: it's just an ever-narrowing rearrangement of things I've already listened to recently.

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