Youtube’s algo has been pretty good at giving me artist/song recommendations… admittwdly after over a decade of liking and subscribing to a ton of bands on the platform. Brought me IDLES and Viagra Boys first LPs before anyone else, and just this week turned me on to Vancouver band PISS. They’re fucking raw, take heed of the lead’s warning before they start.
i feel like people are using “recommendations” in two different ways here:
One is what you’re talking about, where youtube just shows you some things it thinks you’ll enjoy and you click on whatever looks interesting; the other is a platform outright creating playlists for you.
That said: even on youtube music i find the automatic “music you’ll like” playlist is perfectly okay most of the time. It does tend to be quite samey to what i’ve already listened to and rarely gives me anything that makes me go HOLY FUCK YES, but honestly i think that’s kind of what you want from a feature like that.
Same. Over the last decade that was one of my main main ways of finding new music. Don’t really had friends with similar tastes and record labels luckily all had official accounts. Plus promotion accounts who upload music from certain genres. There are definitely genres I found via the algorithm.
Youtube’s algo has been pretty good at giving me artist/song recommendations… admittwdly after over a decade of liking and subscribing to a ton of bands on the platform. Brought me IDLES and Viagra Boys first LPs before anyone else, and just this week turned me on to Vancouver band PISS. They’re fucking raw, take heed of the lead’s warning before they start.
https://youtu.be/_v0iGBBiXBI
i feel like people are using “recommendations” in two different ways here:
One is what you’re talking about, where youtube just shows you some things it thinks you’ll enjoy and you click on whatever looks interesting; the other is a platform outright creating playlists for you.
That said: even on youtube music i find the automatic “music you’ll like” playlist is perfectly okay most of the time. It does tend to be quite samey to what i’ve already listened to and rarely gives me anything that makes me go HOLY FUCK YES, but honestly i think that’s kind of what you want from a feature like that.
Same. Over the last decade that was one of my main main ways of finding new music. Don’t really had friends with similar tastes and record labels luckily all had official accounts. Plus promotion accounts who upload music from certain genres. There are definitely genres I found via the algorithm.