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Tal Zaccai

Nir Nice

Noam Koenigstein

Oren Barkan

Nimrod Ben Simhon

Gal Lavee

Paul Nogues

Shimon Shlevich

Shay Ben Elazar

Yehiel Berezin

A playlist generator that utilizes multiple data sources to rank each track within a set of candidate tracks to enable selection of candidate tracks according to the ranking. Candidate tracks are each scored according to one or more features, such as acoustic similarity and/or similar usage patterns of the candidate track or artist of the candidate track to a current or previously played track or artist. Each feature is weighted according to historical listening patterns surrounding a user-selected playlist seed artist. The weighting may also be further corrected according to historical listening patterns of the particular user. When historical usage data related to a particular seed artist is limited, more generalized historical usage data related to a higher level in a genre hierarchy may be used.

Hierarchical multisource playlist generation

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Tal Zaccai