i've been a little obsessed with pandora recently [pandora]
december 14, 2005 @
22:46
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i've concluded that the algorithm it uses to select songs is totally broken. witness: frequent song repeats, goofy choices (phish -> azia?), and the overall tendancy to drive every 'station' i create to the same general type of music. to be fair, maybe it's a harder problem than i think it is. (except for the repeats issue - i can hardly program a computer and even i could figure out how to avoid that pitfall.) either way, i've been going back every day for the last couple of weeks, if for no other reason than to get mad at how dumb it is. funny how that works.
joepa thought:
I found the more you tag the songs you like and don't like the frequency of repeats goes down.
dave thought:
it's not just on my station(s). when i listen to 'shared' stations the repeats are just as frequent. i had two repeats within 25 songs the other day. kdwb isn't even that bad.
Ed thought:
may I recommend 'Launch' which I believe now is owned by Yahoo - they do an amazing job of sticking to your genre and not repeating.