alt Hacker NewsDon't try to deflect with pedantry.
The system is clearly resolving the users query.
Mixing that with the deterministic “play the songs requested instead of random crap” or even “play related classical music instead of random crap” is clearly not an impossibility.
It actually almost did the right thing. …but no, rather than handling the difficult edges cases like this, just do whatever for edges cases.
It is lazy.
Handling complex difficult edge cases is what differentiates good products from lazy ones.
You don’t use a DJ feature(/any recommendation feature) to play specific songs, you use the search bar. Again, a recommendation system that gave you just exactly what you asked for wouldn’t be a recommendation system!
Re:”play related music”, yeah clearly Spotify isn’t built for classical music. Maybe it should be — I certainly would vote for it to be a priority for a state-operated alternative! But calling a specific feature lazy because of a high-level corporate priority concerning content isn’t valid, IMHO.