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hardtke • yesterday at 8:08 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I would bet that you can train Pandora's algo to respect this preference by thumbing down every vocal techno track. The music genome annotators will have a boolean for vocals in the analysis. You'd likely start using recommendation strategies that use the annotations more than normal. Pandora is still the best for lean back listening.


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ChrisMarshallNY • yesterday at 8:34 PM

Pandora was always the best at figuring out what I wanted to hear; long before AI was a thing, and it's still better.

However, that "non-skip" thing was always a showstopper. Undiscovered music is often obscure for a reason, and I would end up exhausting my skips fairly quickly.

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