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Life is just one playlist away from being perfectly soundtracked.
For example, I want to go running, but of course I need the right music to propel me from start to finish. I’m planning a road trip, but the music needs to sound adventurous to hype me up. I’m under a deadline and need something to block out the world so I can focus.
There are thousands of premade playlists that can fill those needs, but often they just aren’t personal enough. Even the playlists being automatically created for us each week by our music services sometimes aren’t quite right.
So how do you nail the perfect mix of songs every time? How do you make a playlist that hits just right for that special occasion?...
For Oscar Celma, vice president of data science and machine learning at Pandora/SiriusXM, the act of creating a playlist can be more of a two-way street. “Sometimes when I create a playlist, I add songs for a particular context or style, and then I use Pandora’s ‘Add similar songs’ button to find more...
The future of the playlist
There
are days when playlist inspiration just won’t come — no matter the
number of tips or tricks. In that case, algorithms will be there to help
us make the best playlists possible, continually seeping into our music
players of choice.
The biggest music enthusiasts may begrudge the invisible hand of automation in favor of their own brute force discovery skills, but it has its benefits.
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Source: The New York Times
