How to Improve Discover Weekly playlist in Spotify and make it the main source of new music

Spotify has become the most popular in the world of music streaming service in many respects thanks to a powerful system recommendations. How would you rarely or listening to music, whatever kind it may be, the algorithms will always be able to advise you something similar.

Why Spotify

About Spotify heard by many, but they are not everything. Service officially does not work in the CIS countries, although this limitation can be easily circumvent with a free VPN-service. Individual subscription to Spotify is also not cheap, but it is possible to arrange access and family pay a fraction.

Recently, the company has applied for an initial public offering - a big step for any business. The documents revealed not only that Spotify worldwide 71 million paying subscribers, but also the fact that the service is at a loss. This may well encourage the company officially enter the Russian market. As a result - no problems with registration and lower prices for the subscription.

Of course, the residents of the CIS countries, and so a large selection of music services: «Google Play Music", "Yandex. Music », Apple Music, Deezer. But many believe that the strongest recommendation yet have Spotify. And yet - the function Connect, which allows you to control your music from your computer and smartphone audio systems, game consoles and other devices. But one of the most interesting pieces - Discover Weekly.

What is special playlist Discover Weekly

Every Monday Discover Weekly offers 30 songs that you will surely enjoy. For most users, this feature works almost perfectly. There are even a number of advertising posters with tweets about what is cool these playlists.

They are created by several methods. Service, for example, analyzes the description of the songs in the music blogs and compares the contents of the compositions of the various parameters such as tempo and joyful.

But the main method - comparing your music habits with the habits of other users. If you often listen to Coldplay and Spotify knows that Coldplay fans like Muse, it is likely that in your weekly playlist Muse also gets.

A number of specific musical habits can transform Discover Weekly in virtually useless feature. But Spotify algorithms it is possible to adapt themselves.

How to make more accurate Discover Weekly

In 2015, the Spotify team responsible for algorithms Discover Weekly, made a number of recommendations to improve the playlist. The most useful of these are listed below.

skip songs that you do not like

If you do not hear the rest of the track to the 30-second mark, and miss it, the service determines that a song you do not like and do not like to put it in the Discover Weekly. So if you have your own playlist with your favorite songs and you often do not doslushivaete them to the end, Spotify will assume that these tracks you do not like.

Continue to listen to new music

If you suddenly discover a new genre and start listening to it, Spotify will not immediately advise similar tracks. Service will think that someone just lent your account. Listen to new music than a couple of days, then you begin to notice the appropriate recommendations.

Do not worry that children or holiday songs spoil your recommendations

In Spotify have specific genres like Children's and Christmas music, as well as with the sound of rain tracks. All this service is not taken into account only if you do not start listening to such compositions continuously. The same applies to Spotify listening in private mode, when your friends can not see your performance, and directly Discover Weekly Playlist.

Create your own playlists and listen to radio

Try to create a couple of your own playlists with your favorite songs. According to him the service will select similar tracks. These recommendations are collected from other users' playlists. So if you want to create a thematic selection, the algorithm it understands.

Turn on the radio by songs, albums and artists that you like the most. They service also puts a lot of good.

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Spotify does not disclose all the details of their algorithms work, because it is one of the main advantages over the competition. In addition, the algorithms are constantly improving. Therefore, pay attention to how you listen to music, and try to create their own unique habits.