Flow Moods: Recommending Music by Moods on Deezer
Th\'eo Bontempelli, Benjamin Chapus, Fran\c{c}ois Rigaud and, Mathieu Morlon, Marin Lorant, Guillaume Salha-Galvan

TL;DR
Flow Moods enhances Deezer's music recommendations by incorporating user moods through collaborative filtering, audio analysis, and curator annotations, enabling personalized mood-specific playlists at scale since 2021.
Contribution
This paper introduces Flow Moods, a novel system that integrates mood-awareness into Deezer's recommendation algorithm, improving personalization for millions of users.
Findings
Flow Moods successfully recommends mood-specific playlists to millions.
The system improves user engagement and satisfaction.
It demonstrates effective integration of multiple data sources for mood detection.
Abstract
The music streaming service Deezer extensively relies on its Flow algorithm, which generates personalized radio-style playlists of songs, to help users discover musical content. Nonetheless, despite promising results over the past years, Flow used to ignore the moods of users when providing recommendations. In this paper, we present Flow Moods, an improved version of Flow that addresses this limitation. Flow Moods leverages collaborative filtering, audio content analysis, and mood annotations from professional music curators to generate personalized mood-specific playlists at scale. We detail the motivations, the development, and the deployment of this system on Deezer. Since its release in 2021, Flow Moods has been recommending music by moods to millions of users every day.
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Taxonomy
TopicsMusic and Audio Processing · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Diverse Musicological Studies
Methodstravel james
