Hi,
Well I guess this has certainly already been brought up by someone. But well, I couldn't find anything which would match this problem in the forums and so just to be able to sleep bether at night and to make sure I'm not crazy, or something.
For instance, let's look at following scenario (I know it might be a bit far-fetched, but just hold on for a second):
- Happily browse through artists -> Alice In Chains -> Black gives way to blue -> Oh nice one -> 'SHUFFLE PLAY'
- Listening
- Keep listening
- Keep listening
- At home, 'Pause', go out of app, go to bed, dream about listening
- wake up, breakfast, go out to work, turn phone on, and 'Play' to continue where it left off.. yeah it works.. good job..
- Listening
- Keep listening
- Ok, that's enough now, Browse 'Similar artists' -> Hmm Candlebox -> Into the Sun -> 'Add to Up Next'
- Listening
- Hmm, not bad, nice rifs, keep listening
- At work, 'Pause' (last playing song Candlebox - Surrendering at 02:17), go out of app, happy tiping here and there..
- Leave work, open spotify
- Hmm last played song 'Alice in chains'?? Nope, that's wrong. Well guess I won't be listening the end of that song again... sniff. Swipe next, to get to the next Candlebox title in the album.
- Come home, go to bed, HORRIBLE NIGHTMARES about how Candlebox - Surrendering might have ended....
Well I hope you see the problem, this happens all the time and I'm not able to peacefully listen to any new album without this fear of nightmares.
So, I don't know what you're trying to do with this playing queue thingy, maybe your're applying some fancy machine learning algorithms to anticipate the users wishes, passing some deep neural networks to do some sentiment analysis or similar. But to me, it really feels like the early stages of reinforcement learning trials where the agent is trying to explore every single edge of my patience into oblivion...
So, it's definitely not working for me, and I beg you honestly, just allow to disable this madness and have a simple playlist oriented queue. You know, like winamp once had.... When leaving the app, it just memorizes where it left off (song + timestamp) and when re-opening the app tries to jump right back to it where it left off. (Maybe, also mark already listened songs in the playlist with a different shade of gray, but this would already be a super pro version worth thausands of dollars).
Anyway, if you need help developing it, just let me know. I would even do it for free.
PS. Otherwise, please just set the exploration epsilon to zero. I can't handle it any longer...
