Are recommendations sorted?

qegqeg — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:11:54 GMT

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My Question or Issue

Are the recommendations based on seed song/artist/genre (only, i.e. no other parameters) ordered on relevancy or are they sorted randomly? In the reference documents they state this about the RecommendationsObject: "An array of track object (simplified) ordered according to the parameters supplied" but whenever I repeat an identical call it returns different recommendations which is making me think this is not the case.

I saw this post with the same question, but nobody answered it. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Recommendation-seed-track-ranking/m-p/4996123#M721

Similarly, when I set target_popularity to 100 (the only filter), I would expect the recommendations to be sorted according to popularity as it states in the reference docs. However, as far as I can tell this is not the case. Am I missing something?

Re: Are recommendations sorted?

qegqeg — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:41:12 GMT

Bump in the hopes of getting some input

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Are recommendations sorted?

Re: Are recommendations sorted?