RTP Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 I just have a YouTube generated playlist going which served me two monsters of a track right after another, that I honestly confess to not have known before, but daaaamn they are good... ...I mean see for yourself: Ulrich Schnauss ... daaamn awesome ... and that Tripswitch Remix of "Water From A Vine Leaf", absolutely great... ...by the way, the subsequent track after these two is Vibrasphere - Erosion ... also brilliant, but I knew that one before ...the oddity about it being, however, that I started off with a band that is not directly related to these supertracks in my opinion (QNTAL ... more Goth than anything else =) ... as you can see ... so apparently these tracks were linked by the algorithm with me previously giving the right input... ...which is cool, because it gives each and every click on YouTube that I did before more meaning, more depth... ...but that also made me think further: I believe there is a key that you can feed the algorithm so that it creates the most blissful, most perfect damn insane top-of-the-world playlist, custom forged for you individually. The key consists of a series of tracks you have to search for and listen, giving them a like. But it goes way beyond the good old "people who have listened to this track also liked..." method. This method usually delivers pure garbage in my case, I am a very special character (no offense to anybody else - I actually mean this in a bad way) and it has let me down so many times... ...but when the algorithm gets more and more material from me, it can craft more and more special things, diving down into these small backalleys of genre border areas where I like to roam about and then, when it has roamed there enough, boom! there it is, the perfect combination. It can be a long key and it can take years until it is complete. But with every interaction with the system, bits of this key are confirmed true or false... The cool thing about this is: every human being in this world has such a key. And it feels right now if QNTAL were the last missing part to mine By this rule, cases like this should continue to become more common. Or not? What do you think? It also has made me think of a story. I have this idea for a story about this machine - or complex of machines - that gather information in this way, ultimately becoming so powerful they can find out these keys for each and every human being... However, I don't really know what to do with the story when all keys are known. What then? Or is this not a story, but reality? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTP Posted June 24, 2021 Author Share Posted June 24, 2021 Wow, respect - I can not compare algorithms, I am not on TikTok or on Insta. Also not on Spotify. YouTube is actually my only home for consuming content in masses ... and amazon, because of some exclusives... Youtube knows me quite well, if you counted all the man hours that went into me feeding that machine while searching for obscure music videos and whatnot, you'd be a pretty rich man... ... it would be cool if that history or "key of preferences" was interchangeable between platforms, I must say ... then I don't have to wade through loads of crap when going on a non-native platform... ...but what am I saying. That would be the total surveillance of internet activity, wouldn't it - and I am not a fan of that, actually. Plus it makes people quite vulnerable to manipulation, doesn't it? ...preaching to drink water and drinking wine doesn't go well together, eh? However, blockchain could help that the data at least is not tampered with while being openly accessible ... that would be okay as long as the match between key and human behind is not feasible, because that would not be to my liking. Just imagine my boss or an institution asking me about this track "Sludgy Heads found in a Handbag" by Megaptera that I listened to AGES ago ... "strange fascinations or violent tencdencies much?" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTP Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 I think it can't be separated, unfortunately. They all will keep too many dirty data. And that's that. Blockchain can be used though to make the format interchangeable. You click a link on TikTok - block added to your chain, which also YouTube can see... But there's one major good about these things: I can evaluate by YouTube suggestions that people get if they are compatible with me or not... ...my best friend for example -- whoa, he had a lot of identical recommendations even though he only rarely ever listens to psytrance. Stunning to see that! Better indication than Parship or any of these matching algos That's advice for you right there, dear reader. Avoid divorce by checking YouTube suggestions of your spouse before marriage 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoline Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Spotify algorithms are really spot(no pun intended)-on. I frequently get amazing suggestions from random playlists it offers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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