topic Get Recommendations That Are Not Specific to My Personal Tastes in Spotify for Developers https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Get-Recommendations-That-Are-Not-Specific-to-My-Personal-Tastes/m-p/5171334#M2197 <P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P><STRONG>Country</STRONG></P><P>USA&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Device</STRONG></P><P>PC</P><P><STRONG>Operating System</STRONG></P><P>Windows 10</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>When I'm using Spotify's API to get recommendations (I'm using endpoint:&nbsp; <A href="https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations</A>), it appears that the outputs are highly based on my own listening habits; that is, the recommendations seem to be good for me, but not necessarily good for the average listener.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there any way to strip the "priors" of the recommendations system that Spotify uses so it will give more generalized (less personal) recommendations?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advance for your help!</P> Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:07:47 GMT timothydgreer 2021-03-19T19:07:47Z Get Recommendations That Are Not Specific to My Personal Tastes https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Get-Recommendations-That-Are-Not-Specific-to-My-Personal-Tastes/m-p/5171334#M2197 <P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P><STRONG>Country</STRONG></P><P>USA&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Device</STRONG></P><P>PC</P><P><STRONG>Operating System</STRONG></P><P>Windows 10</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>When I'm using Spotify's API to get recommendations (I'm using endpoint:&nbsp; <A href="https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations</A>), it appears that the outputs are highly based on my own listening habits; that is, the recommendations seem to be good for me, but not necessarily good for the average listener.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there any way to strip the "priors" of the recommendations system that Spotify uses so it will give more generalized (less personal) recommendations?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advance for your help!</P> Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:07:47 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Get-Recommendations-That-Are-Not-Specific-to-My-Personal-Tastes/m-p/5171334#M2197 timothydgreer 2021-03-19T19:07:47Z