Spotify Ideas

[#1]

At this moment the genres are all wrong for many tracks on the spotify. I would love to be able to tell my opinion about what is the genre for the current track that im listening. For example, only an ignorant would define Prodigy as hardcore techno. Its more jungle than hardcore techno. Of course single track can belong to many genre at the same time, and that is for people to decide!

Would  you consider some way for users to "correct" the genres for the tracks? I love the Soundrop app, as music there is accurate enough because people can vote. This same mechanism where people can "vote" for the genre for every track could really work!

[#2]

Genres are always awkward because they're subjective and imprecise labels.

I agree that crowdsourcing and allowing multiple tags with an up/down voting system is probably the most reliable (or least unreliable) method. But I'm not sure where genre is really particularly relevant in Spotify?

Granted you can search by genre -- and, granted, the results are usually horrible! But other than that it's not a feature that's generally displayed or even used, afaik. Pretty sure the "Related Artists" are manually assigned; not sure how Spotify radio selects its tracks as I've barely used it, but I'd be surprised if it relies on the genre assignment.

All that to say: I think you've got a decent solution, but I'm not sure there's really a problem that needs solving (in terms of Spotify functionality) to begin with!

[#3]

Hey Related artists are user-based. So for example in Cascada page Related artists mean that all who listened Cascada, also listen Basshunter, Groove Coverage... etc.

The radio works on ECHOFI engine. http://echofiapp.com/

Cheers.

[#4]

I agree you there that genres are awkward and generally not used. Personally, I have often tried using them and would definitely use them more, if they were more precise.

I may have to rely on Soundrop, it shows some serious potential even in genre-wise.

[#5]

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dagsu wrote:

For example, only an ignorant would define Prodigy as hardcore techno.

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You think Spotify has problems? On Napster last week, Prodigy's "The Fat of the Land" was the most popular Classical album.

[#6]

Although this idea has been suggested first, I'd like to merge it with a similar, more popular idea to ensure this idea gets the best attention it deserves:

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Tag-Music/idi-p/57185

Add your kudos there please - Ideas will be merged and kudos transferred soon! ;)