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Playlists

Methodology

A method often used by personalized music recommendation engines to learn a listener's preferences in music is to analyze the tracks, albums, and artists in the listener's playlist(s).

Pros and Cons

Analyzing the music in a listener's playlist is a quick, easy, and convenient way to analyze a listener's preference in music, and has been implemented by MusicStrands. However, this method is far from accurate or scientific for a few important reasons. Listeners will listen to some tracks, albums, or artists much more often than others, while never listenening to some, and this information should be taken into consideration. Furthermore, listeners might not have all of the music they know in their playlist, so part of their range of musical understanding would be overlooked.