There are a zillion ways to get music recommendations online with algorithm after algorithm promising to help us discover new music. And to be fair, a lot of them do a decent job.
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Last year, Spotify was granted a patent for tracking personality. The app has found a way to assess “behavioral variables” to offer up super-personalized content. That could mean music, but it will inevitably
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I’ve said it before: Can you imagine if COVID-19 hit in the days before the internet? With all the record stores closed and unable to share anything with our friends, we’d have been
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Do you find yourself bombarded by music you just don’t care about? Everyone wants recommendations of cool stuff, but often the algorithms can’t seem to get it right. Now imagine you’re an artist.
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On this day in 1951, the first-ever colour TVs went on sale. No one care and less than a month later, they were discontinued. Moving on to music news for September 28, 2019…
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It’s the first legal 4/20 in Canada. Kinda feels different given that every day is 4/20 in this country, doesn’t it? Here’s what’s making music news on April 20, 2019. On that note,
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Spare me the Groundhog Day references. I get it. Spare me the Groundhog Day references. I get it. Spare me the Groundhog Day references. I get it. Spare me the Groundhog Day references.
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Had he lived, Tupac would be 57 today. And in other music news for June 16, 2018… Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca. Ozzy Osborne to serve 30 years for a
Read MoreSpotify sometimes evokes the old Arthur C. Clarke adage that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Take its Discovery Weekly playlist that it serves up to users, a bespoke collection of
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Virtually every music service promises that it will learn from your tastes and serve you up more of what you will probably like. But should we be trusting these algorithms and/or AI behind these
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This article from Wired explains a lot about music curation and recommendations. Bad playlists have a science all their own. “When you hear music that you find intensely pleasurable, it triggers a dopamine response,”
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