Rocking around the clock eight days a week: anexploration of temporal patterns of music listeningPerfecto Herrera

Music Recommendation and Discovery 2010.

计算机科学;艺术

[e-mail] ; Mohamed Sordo

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【 摘 要 】

Music listening patterns can be influenced by contextual factorssuch as the activity a listener is involved in, the place one islocated or physiological constants. As a consequence, musicallistening choices might show some recurrent temporal patterns.Here we address the hypothesis that for some listeners, theselection of artists and genres could show a preference for certainmoments of the day or for certain days of the week. With the helpof circular statistics we analyze playcounts from Last.fm anddetect the existence of that kind of patterns. Once temporalpreference is modeled for each listener, we test the robustness ofthat using the listener’s playcount from a posterior temporalperiod. We show that for certain users, artists and genres,temporal patterns of listening can be used to predict musiclistening selections with above-chance accuracy. This findingcould be exploited in music recommendation and playlistgeneration in order to provide user-specific music suggestions atthe “right” moment.Categories and Subject DescriptorsH.5.5 Sound and Music Computing – methodologies andtechniques, modeling.General TermsMeasurement, Experimentation, Human Factors.