Spotify introduces new Playlist Creator with AI
Spotify is rolling out a new feature in the UK and Australia. Users can create “AI Playlists”, i.e. a user types a prompt such as...
Will Spotify soon allow users to disable personalized recommendations?
MacRumors reports that one of their readers found an option to disable personalized recommendations in Spotify’s Beta code. Spotify is exploring a new option that...
‘Spotify Confidence’: convenience wrappers around stat models various functions
Spotify released Spotify Confidence, which provides “convenience wrappers around stats model’s various functions for computing p-values and confidence intervals. With Spotify Confidence, it’s easy to...
Spotify Adds New Personalized Playlists: Favorite Artists, Genres, and Decades
Spotify announced to introduce three new personalized playlists. The playlists will feature your favorite artists, genre, and decade. Now, we’re excited to share three new...
Spotify in Korea: What’s more important? Price or Recommender System? [Dong Sun-hwa @ TheKoreaTimes]
Spotify recently launched its music streaming and recommendation service in Korea. Interestingly, Spotify asks for a higher price than its local competitors. Dong Sun-hwa (Korea...
Building a content-based music recommender-system [Amol Mavuduru @TowardsDataScience]
Amol Mavuduru wrote a tutorial on building a content-based music recommender system with Spotify data. Have you ever wondered how Spotify recommends songs and playlists...
Spotify considers the interests of artists when recommending music to users
Spotify announced a new feature that allows artists and music labels to influence how their music is recommended to the users of Spotify. In this...
Spotify Re-Releases its Million-Playlist Dataset from the RecSys Challenge 2018
In 2018, Spotify co-organized the ACM RecSys Challenge and provided a massive dataset of 1 million playlists consisting of 2 million tracks by around 300,000...