The network effect plays a big part in crowdsourcing data for Spotify listeners.

Friends’ Network Data: Watching movies, listening to songs, almost anything is better when done with a bunch of friends or family members.

The algorithm can find other songs from the same origin country matching more of the above criteria to find the closest possible match.

Origin Country: Origin country informs two things, the artist type, and the language of the song.

This variable might be closely connected to the origin country as well. Meaning, a song is usually categorized as 2–3 min or 4–5 min duration, that is, approximates work in getting more recommendations as compared to monitoring the exact duration like 2 min 33 secs.

Duration: The length of a song in approximates.

Nowadays, though some songs can have multiple artists’ collaborating for a single song and that might be also a factor.

Artist: Artist's name is unique in most of the songs.

While music form and music style are sometimes used interchangeably in practice, they are distinct concepts.

Genre: The term music genre refers to a group of pieces of music that share a tradition or convention.

Infact, some were weird for my taste, which got me thinking about how does Spotify’s Enhance work? Working BreakdownĪ usual song can be broken down into different parts. It is worth adding that not all 174 songs that got added to the playlist were loved by me. A 174-song addition, which is almost 49.85% extra. I tried out Enhance on my “Liked Songs” playlist and it changed my 349 songs playlist to 523 songs. Songs that are added by Enhance have marked with a green sparkle ✨ icon while the ones that are liked by the user are marked with a green 💚 icon. It’s a toggle-like interface component that adds recommendations to the user’s playlist based on existing songs that are already part of the user’s playlist.Īdding and removing the recommendations is easy as Spotify memorizes which songs are added via recommendations and the ones were liked by the user. Last year Spotify released its recommendation engine-powered Enhance feature for the user’s “Liked Songs” playlist. Spruce up your playlists with Spotify Enhance How do recommendations in Spotify’s new ‘Enhance’ feature work?

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