Maybe 5 years ago when we first started examining how to do recommendations, we put up a blog post about and there were so many people who claimed: recommendations suck. No one is ever going to want them.
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mayhem[m]
And here we are, if we miss making recs, we hear about it from our users, proving the blog commenter very wrong.
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mayhem[m]
turns out, most recommendations do suck -- they are trying to sell you something or enrich someone -- not put the good music in front of you. but you dont have such motivations, the recs are quite a bit easier to accomplish.
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rustynova[m]
*If you don't have tastes so specific that you're mostly alone.
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rustynova[m]
Where my deathstep/choirstep homies at
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rustynova[m]
But it's nice to see it works for people
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mayhem[m]
its only a matter of time until we have enough freaks like you to make it work for as well.
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mayhem[m]
+you
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rustynova[m]
And I'm trying to rope them in :)
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jshe[m]
oo what's choirstep that sounds cool
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lazybookwyrm[m]
I guess my problem is my tastes are too generic, because I only get the most generic recommendations lol
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jshe[m]
im assuming dubstep with choirs?
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rustynova[m]
Dubstep with choirs. Makes it somewhat angelic/God is mad and comming to get you... (full message at <https://matrix.chatbrainz.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/chatbrainz.org/ikYZFESNtxHeFAOtdctHCfsd>)
wow i have the exact opposite problem, i dont like know any "generic" songs lol. like stuff youd expect someone on the street to know, i been trying to branch out to that lately hehe
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rustynova[m]
Same
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jshe[m]
and thank u for that, i'll try later today
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rustynova[m]
Check the tag on MB too. It's slightly more updated
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jshe[m]
would some of what ultrakill's got goin on fall into that genre? i listened a bit to that game's music a while ago and it feels like it would
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rustynova[m]
Ultrakill is different. It's more doom music than dubstep.
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rustynova[m]
Not into it, but future of hell is nice
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jshe[m]
i seee
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rustynova[m]
Cybergrind is too, but it's a different genre
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lazybookwyrm[m]
Even that I wouldn't mind as much, but over half of my recs are artists I've already listened to lol. A setting to disable artists you've already listened to, or artists over x listens (to filter out the super popular ones) would go hard.
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rustynova[m]
Take notes
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lazybookwyrm[m]
Lol, there's one song that's in my Spotify Discover weekly and in my LB recommendation playlist this week
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lazybookwyrm[m]
Not even a new release, they both just decided on it, funny
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shirsak[m]
monkey: let me know if i can take LB-1876 (after i am done with the current one) though i think i would need a little more help on that (though i mostly have a decent understanding of what needs to be updated)
