Why Spotify’s recommendations will delight hair-metal fans
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
It’s already public that Spotify is working with The Echo Nest to bring better recommendations to its streaming music service, but the latter company’s Paul Lamere has given a demo at the sanFran MusicTech Summit showing how it’ll work. On the surface it’s simple – Spotify users will be able to right-click on playlists and choose “Extend Playlist” to have new songs added based on the tunes already in it. As he explains: “If you want to make a playlist of acoustic hair metal ballads, we”ll be able to do that – we know who the hair metal bands are, and we know what a power ballad sounds like.” Excellent.
Source: Music Machinery – http://tinyurl.com/qeokr9
