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		sdellis on Jan 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ted versus The Media Lab [video] EchoNest's were the best at the time because they added social data into the mix. They analyzed people's playlists/libraries to generate recommendations when everyone else was using descriptive metadata, audio comparison, or manual curation.

proximitysauce on Jan 28, 2020 [–]

That's incorrect. Most of those services were using collaborative filtering social data to drive their recommendations.

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