What’s new in the labs?
The research team at MusicStrands has been working to deliver cool new features from our labs. Here’s a summary of our latest work. Visit our labs page to try out these new features.
Musical Chain of Discovery
In some cases, music discovery is like a chain of recommendations. You discover an artist you like, and from there another and another, your taste continually expanding. We call this process the Musical Chain of Discovery. This page allows you to simulate that process using our recommender engine. We find the musical chain of discovery from one artist to another! For example, what is the musical chain of discovery from Bruce Springsteen to B.B. King?
Another new feature in the labs lets you compare affinities between users and attributes of the items in their respective libraries. For example:
The real-time music popularity computation is performed by rating each play event according to an exponential decay function, and then computing the average of the ratings. You can adjust the number of play events considered as well as the decay factor for the rating function.
