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Re: Let's talk about artist suggestions for a second.

albummaster — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 05:36:19 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 10/31/2014 09:36

shaydndepriest wrote:

What artist causes besteveralbums.com to recommend Arcade Fire, Kanye West, and the Arctic Monkeys?

If you guessed "Vampire Weekend", you're right! If you didn't, like I didn't, you're probably confused.

Could someone explain to me how the system works and why such a strange connection was drawn there?

As mentioned by dividesbyzero, currently the system uses 'favourites' to determine which artists/albums/etc to show. For example, Arcade Fire is the most favourited artist by those people that had Vampire Weekend as a favourite. This feature is on the list to be improved (with many others) and will be changed to a more chart-oriented calculation based on which artists/albums tend to appear together on the same charts.

Re: Let's talk about artist suggestions for a second.

babyBlueSedan — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:39:29 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 10/29/2014 19:39

My bad, you learn something new every day. Either way it's based off of what people enjoy and not what the artists actually sound like. Which would be a cool feature, but as I said I think it would require a lot of work.

Re: Let's talk about artist suggestions for a second.

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:15:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/29/2014 18:15

Actually I think it's predicated on who has added the album to their favorites. I've noticed for albums where I am the only one to have added it as a favorite, it recommends a seemingly arbitrary selection of albums that are also among my favorites

Re: Let's talk about artist suggestions for a second.

babyBlueSedan — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:41:30 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 10/29/2014 03:41

Pretty sure it just suggest artists that the same people put on their charts. So in this case, Vampire Weekend shares the most charts with Arctic Monkeys, Yeezy, and Arcade Fire. If I had to guess I'd say this is because Yeezus, AM, Reflektor, and MVOTC are on a lot of 2013 charts together, not to mention decade charts.

It's not perfect, but I can't think of another way to link artists together short of manually adding similar artists for every artist, which sounds hard.

Let's talk about artist suggestions for a second.

PsychologistHD — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:13:47 GMT

Author: PsychologistHD

Posted: 10/29/2014 02:13

What artist causes besteveralbums.com to recommend Arcade Fire, Kanye West, and the Arctic Monkeys?

If you guessed "Vampire Weekend", you're right! If you didn't, like I didn't, you're probably confused.

Could someone explain to me how the system works and why such a strange connection was drawn there?