Title
The Importance of Song Context and Song Order in Automated Music Playlist Generation.
Abstract
The automated generation of music playlists can be naturally regarded as a sequential task, where a recommender system suggests a stream of songs that constitute a listening session. In order to predict the next song in a playlist, some of the playlist models proposed so far consider the current and previous songs in the playlist (i.e., the song context) and possibly the order of the songs in the playlist. We investigate the impact of the song context and the song order on next-song recommendations by conducting dedicated off-line experiments on two datasets of hand-curated music playlists. Firstly, we compare three playlist models, each able to consider a different song context length: a popularity-based model, a song-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) model and a Recurrent-Neural-Network-based model (RNN). We also consider a model that predicts next songs at random as a reference. Secondly, we challenge the RNN model (the only model from the first experiment able to consider the song order) by manipulating the order of songs within playlists. Our results indicate that the song context has a positive impact on the quality of next-song recommendations, even though this effect can be masked by the bias towards very popular songs. Furthermore, in our experiments the song order does not appear as a crucial variable to predict better next-song recommendations.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Information Retrieval
Recommender system,Collaborative filtering,Information retrieval,Computer science,Popularity,Active listening,Popular music
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1807.04690
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreu Vall1646.09
Massimo Quadrana223913.89
Markus Schedl31431117.09
Widmer Gerhard42619240.02