I found that genre choice thing you do at the initial setup stage was fairly useless. but I've been using Apple Music for a few years now, and the AI is very good at making suggestions based on my pretty eclectic/obscure tastes in alt variants of genre and subgenre. And the 'listen now' view responds to whatever I've been playing recently as well as longer term. Better than Tidal or Spotify were. But I'd like to filter out all the compilations ('essentials' etc) as they just irritate me.My one wish is that when I told Apple my genre interests they would stop flooding my music choices with rap, hip-hop and the rest that I have no interest at all in.
Use the like and dislike actively and add things you like to your library. Can’t get into those genres either but I never see them on my “Listen Now” pageMy one wish is that when I told Apple my genre interests they would stop flooding my music choices with rap, hip-hop and the rest that I have no interest at all in.
I forgot that part, yes, when I find an artist I like I add a swag of their stuff to my library.
Ok that is really odd, it should sort itself but you could go nuclear and delete your profile if you’re getting really annoyed. No way someone else could be using your account?
No way. I don't want to ever hear what I dislike in order to flag them. I want them to do the work.
The dislike is a pretty powerful method for training music preference AI. Unless they can invent some sort of telepathic link I think its a pretty reasonable way to gather data and feedback on when they get it wrong (which they will)?
Ah but I don't need to train AI. I can concisely define those genres which I wish to make invisible and inaudible.
Sorry, idiosyncratic Australian use of 'swag' by which I simply meant 'a lot'. Working as intended, I add albums/singles from artists I like (and new ones I come across) to my library. Your post just reminded me that may be an input to the 'genius' recommendations that appear via the 'listen Now' view. I don't use like/dislike, however.
In my case, I simply listen to what I like, and often add same to my library. No like/dislike. That seems to be sufficient for recommendations to work positively for me at least.
For the subject of this thread, Google ≠ Apple and using ≠ training.
Exactly. Just like on this forum, if there's a member I find to be a real wanker I can just click to "Ignore" and not hear of him again. That's what I want for my streamers. Don't have any problems like that with my personal library, why do I need to put up with it from my "paid for" streamer?
Block artist would add a bit of value for me. Block genre would be insufficiently granular (and sub-genre appears too inconsistent/inaccurate) but would likely work for others. In the above posts I'm thinking of the 'listen now' view. The 'browse' view appears unrelated to my preferences/habits, horrific actually. I don't use 'radio' but that looks somewhat related.
You’re right that this is an Apple thread. For that reply, I had YouTube on my brain. But the same applies to Apple.
You're right of course, about the AI I should have said using = training.
Had time to refresh my memory of the TV device interface. Lower info density compared to macOS, but exactly the same content on 'listen now' view, per my listening and library. No need to like/dislike (or 'love' vs 'suggest less like this') just listen ('train AI' is automatic). You don't go into detail (looks like your posts in this thread are declarative rather than dialectic) but if you dislike that UI you wouldn't like it on Mac any better.
Also had a look at Spotify (have an account via family share, don't use it much) and downloaded their app (wasn't on my current computer). Dived into settings to turn off the diabolical autoplay options (same as Tidal) but can't see where I'd block a specific artist or genre?
They don't AFAIK.
