For me the recommendations have been circling the drain for a while. It’s just the same songs over and over again, and it seems to have decided that I only like ambient electronic music and indie pop, both of which I actually find quite boring. No matter what I do, and no matter how much I like songs in other genres, that’s what it serves me, along with the occasional '80s hit because it has figured out I’m old. It was good for a few years but then seemed to get stuck in a rut.
More or less same, or random bands with the same name, I mostly use bandcamp for discovery these days, for now it’s still great being able to follow small labels, bands and user tags.
I’ve been very cautious over all the years that ive been using it. My rule is to only like what I wouldn’t mind listening daily to, and do playlists for all the other stuff that I don’t want to get bombarded with.
For me the recommendations have been circling the drain for a while. It’s just the same songs over and over again, and it seems to have decided that I only like ambient electronic music and indie pop, both of which I actually find quite boring. No matter what I do, and no matter how much I like songs in other genres, that’s what it serves me, along with the occasional '80s hit because it has figured out I’m old. It was good for a few years but then seemed to get stuck in a rut.
So you have
Discover Weekly
and
Release Radar
and
daylist which generates vibe based playlists every 4 hours
and
An endless search of all songs and artists and playlists matching any number of random playlists featuring random songs across all genres
limited to your imagination
and going back to the beginning of recorded music
and then at the bottom of those playlists you have recommended songs based on the playlist
then if you click on any of those songs you get more songs by that artist
then if you click smart shuffle it’ll inject songs related into the playlist
It’s kinda hard for me to sympathise but I have heard this complaint a few times now
For me the biggest complaint against spotify I have is payola
More or less same, or random bands with the same name, I mostly use bandcamp for discovery these days, for now it’s still great being able to follow small labels, bands and user tags.
I’ve been very cautious over all the years that ive been using it. My rule is to only like what I wouldn’t mind listening daily to, and do playlists for all the other stuff that I don’t want to get bombarded with.
It has worked out for me.