
Episode 279: Welcome To The Machine (Taylor's Version)
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How Spotify Calculates Music Preferences
Spotify tracks metadata like artist name, genre tags. Then it does a raw audio analysis that ingests into Spotify's database. They measure danceability based on tempo, beat strength and regularity. It then splits the track into different sections by shifts, transitions. There's also apparently machine learning based instrumental separation.
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