Hi,

The new playlist builder differs significantly from the old one. In the old version, when you entered the name of an artist, a random track from that artist was selected as a seed and the playlist was created from that random selection. If you entered three artists, the playlist was built from three random seeds from those artists.

In this version, you always select a specific seed track to build the playlist, although you can start searching for that track by entering an artist. You can also specify an artist in the "advanced filters" section, but then the artist acts as a "filter" that allows you to either exclude an artist or get tracks exclusively from that artist.

My suggestion would be that when you enter an artist's name to select a seed track, scroll down through the list of tracks by that artist and select some different tracks by that artist. You can do that for each of the tree artists you select as seeds. Let us know if you get different results.

Thanks for the feedback. We'll also look into it from this end.

- The MyStrands Team

Thanks for the info. Wendi. I seem to get a better mix if I use at least 3 songs from the artist that inspires the mix (that takes way more time than the old version where I could just pick the artist). But there are still songs that don't fit at all. And the songs that don't fit are always the most popular tracks by that artist. These are artists that would never come up on the site as recommendations. Odd.

I uploaded an example playlist for you to see. The seeds were Jamie Lidell and Eric Lindell. No idea how those songs came up in the mix?? I redid it using just one Lidell song and it was much better. go figure!

Hi Brad,

The seeds will always be tracks, so somehow tracks by Jamie Lidell and Eric Lindell were selected. (Remember, tracks will be selected even if you type in the artist name.) Did you have "include my seeds in the playlist" selected?

In any case, I'm forwarding this to our recommendation team--they are planning to look into improving recommendations from multiple seeds, so the timing is pretty good.

I'll keep checking back as you send examples. Thanks!