@Casey I can't recall if you and Kevin ever made mention of Liz Pelly's book from last year, but it's worth a gander. As is Ted Gioia's interview on Rick Beato's channel, in which Ted (arguably the most qualified living jazz historian) mentions jazz listening playlists recommended by Spotify where even he doesn't recognise a single artist -- because it's simply 'fske' music.

If there were a way to filter this dross, I think such a script would be invaluable!

@Casey While this is an imaginative and useful way to address the issue, I can't help but note it is probably not even in my top 10 'biggest problems' with Spotify -- preeminent amongst which is what I'm unwisely calling the 'Second Great Replacement Theory'. That's where genuine artists are shoved aside in favour of in-house 'ghost musicians' and AI-generated pablum, all to avoid paying royalties.

@Casey Oh man, you're still on Spotify? Keep up.

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Amazing ! I’ve been using LLms to build playlists since GPT3.5 and have been wondering if others with more experience in the matter are able to tell which model has the best taste/ culture/ creativity for this ?
#music #ai #playlist

@Casey if you want the meta AI (not Meta (tm)) version of this, you can connect ChatGPT to your Spotify account, have a full conversation about your music taste and listening history with it, and then have ChatGPT prompt the Spotify AI to build a playlist

@Casey Semi-related side question. Is there a way to organise your liked songs into new playlists by category? My liked songs list is so sprawling and varied that it’s sort of unlistenable because the jumps from classical to hip hop to 90s shoegaze (or whatever) are too jarring.

@Casey as a community radio DJ, I both fear and desire this. On one hand, we are the last bastion of humans curating music for our communities. On the other hand, we all only know so much music....