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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2022
Spotify Ab, Stockholm, SE;
Joshua Pham, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rustam Zinurov, Stockholm, SE;
Jeremy Theron Hopple, Jackson, WY (US);
Andrew Joseph Asman, Ft. Wright, KY (US);
Birgit Yao, Boston, MA (US);
Gastón Montemayor Olaizola, New York, NY (US);
Yu-Ting Ger, Riverdale, MD (US);
Puja Maheshwari, New York, NY (US);
Gabriel Joshua Heafitz, Glen Rock, NJ (US);
Spotify AB, Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
This disclosure is directed to adjusting a playlist of media-content items. One aspect is a method comprising receiving a request to adjust a playlist comprising initial media-content items, in response to receiving the input requesting the playlist be adjusted, compiling a set of features for the playlist and selecting a strong seed media-content item from the initial media-content items as a strong seed, predicting scores for a plurality of candidate media-content items based at least in part on the set of features for the playlist and the strong seed, the scores indicating a likelihood that a corresponding candidate media-content item will be added to the playlist, and inserting a candidate media-content item of the plurality of candidate media-content items after the strong seed media-content item based at least in part on the scores predicted for the plurality of candidate media-content items.