To Monopolise Our Ears
Daniel Cohen: What Spotify Wants, 4 May 2023
The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance
by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud.
Diversion, 295 pp., £15.99, January 2021,978 1 63576 744 5 Show More
by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud.
Diversion, 295 pp., £15.99, January 2021,
Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
by Nick Seaver.
Chicago, 203 pp., £16, November 2022,978 0 226 82297 6 Show More
by Nick Seaver.
Chicago, 203 pp., £16, November 2022,
“... of the data scientists and product managers working in ‘the world of music recommendation’, Nick Seaver gives an account of the way this sort of technology operates. The job of his interviewees, who tend to work for private companies hired by streaming services, is to help their clients ‘answer an apparently simple question: what’s ... ”