Ep. 4: Are Algorithms Ruining the Music Industry? Part I

In this first part we discuss the algorithms that are running musical discovery today, explain how they work and contrast them with more traditional methods used in the past. 

Links to some things we mentioned: 

Radiohead - In Rainbows release 

Spotify stats 

Spotify Paper on Algorithmic Effects on Musical Discovery 

Spotify using emotions to recommend music 

Spotify audio features about tracks 

Last.fm

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