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> Their algo is bloody awful, it seems to use one song as the basis for "I'm feeling lucky" and never mixes up genres.

Okay, so is the problem that "I'm feeling lucky" is bad because it "never mixes up genres", or...

> if you click "I'm feeling lucky" there's a 20% chance google music will only play me female artists. And it will spiral into genres I don't even like and have no songs thumbed up, purely because they're female too.

...is the complaint that "I'm feeling lucky" is bad because it does mix in genres you don't like based on the sex of the artist?

Because it can't be both.



The main problem is that "I'm feeling lucky" picks a random song and then plays that song's station.

It isn't a "random station", basically the issue is that it never reseeds from your data.

So it's nothing like a station that's good for music discovery based on your previous choices, it's just discovery based on a previous choice.

I'm sure Google could design better, but it's probably just low priority.


This is why such a feature is very hard to get right :-) .

So far all the music tastes detection algorithms I have seen are pretty awful.




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