How Do Recommendations Really Work?
I'm guessing that the recommendations do not take into account the ratings of songs, just the artists and genres right?
I tested the recommendations by building a play list and I created a seed which was all my higest rated songs in my iTunes library. It's a playlist of 931 songs, quite diverse with many artists in multiple genres. I set the max number of tracks to 250, All Music. When it builds the playlist, the list of recommendations is tiny (under 20 songs), and worse, if I clear the Playlist and hit get tracks again, it loads the same handful of recommendations. I even tried setting the max tracks lower, then deleting tracks in the recommended playlist, then raising the max tracks after the initial playlist load and click Get More Tracks and it keeps bringing up the same 15 recommendations. Makes the whole recommendations feature not very useful.
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