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R://i.ch.ard.exeSpotify's Daily Mix playlists and radio features broken. Or maybe not broken, just bad. Now, what has been nagging at me for quite some time now about them you might ask.
Spotify will create a few Daily Mix playlists based on artists / tracks that you listen to and related artists to those tracks. Without knowing any complex algorithms that are being used in curating these playlists, what ends up happening a lot is:
1. Take artists and tracks you have been listening to
2. Search for related artists or albums
3. Find from those artists or specific albums the tracks that have been popular / listened to a lot (or even just the most popular songs
4. Throw these in a Daily Mix playlist or in the queue of the 'radio'.
There is probably some more complexitiy added, but this feels about a straightforward approach. The one thing that they don't seem to take into account is: intros, interludes or outros on albums. And that is the problem, these songs serve a purpose, within the context of the full album. But in a playlist it's useless, they do not introduce anything, as the next track will be a totally different artist.
Now how could this be solved you ask?
Probably through comparing the length of the track being not less than half the length of the average of the track lengths on an album would weed out most of it already.
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