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For me the Discover Weeky playlist is probably the biggest innovation in recorded music distribution since the beginning of commercial music distribution. I've

by b1daly 10y ago

For me the Discover Weeky playlist is probably the biggest innovation in recorded music distribution since the beginning of commercial music distribution. I've found a couple of artist that have become all time favorites that I very well might never have heard of (Anekdoten from Sweden and Motorpsycho from Norway, the Scandinavians seem to be the only non-English cultural family that get rock) It completely bypasses the music distribution industry's gatekeeper behavior. This is previously unheard of, because the labels have a lot at stake, wherever there is a natural interface where music can be presented, they quickly move in and start to use money to control the playlists. I'm pretty sure Spotify's charts are heavily influenced by music industry shenanigans at this point.

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tukum 10y ago
back in the days last.fm had similar functionality, at least I discovered many artists that are my favourites now there. But I'm struggling with Spotify Discover: - Discover Weekly includes tracks that I have listened to before on Spotify. At first I thought it is a bug, but then I read somewhere else that it is a feature as somebody thought that people like hearing something familiar among new songs. Well, not me, but, OK, let it be. - there is no option to ban tracks or artists for life in Spotify - there are many independent and not so independent artists on Spotify with questionable quality (to my taste) Combining all 3 above, in my Discovery Weekly I get tracks that I absolutely hate and I have to skip them. And they come up again and again as there is no way to tell Spotify - please stop delivering this track/artist to me. In last.fm I encountered cases where it suggested me artists that I absolutely hated. I could see how it was similar to my other favourites, but apparently the algorithms did not see why I should hate this. At least last.fm allowed to ban those tracks forever. It still did not allow to ban artist so I had to ban all tracks for that artist (as the algorithm still suggested other tracks by the artists whose tracks I had ban before). In addition, it is true that distribution industry is/was gatekeeper to many artists, but at the same time it saved me from all the low quality music that I am exposed to in Spotify. Instead now I have to spend my own time to filter that out (which generally applies to all information in this age). Overall I would have better experience in Spotify if there was this ban feature. Although there are feature requests about banning songs, Spotify is not rushing implementing this. Then I'm left thinking if Spotify is worth it and should I cancel my subscription.
- joshuakcockrell 10y ago
  The way you tune Discover Weekly is by saving the songs you like, and skipping the ones you don't. If you save a track to your library or into a playlist you've made it won't appear in future Discover Weekly playlists.
- b1daly 10y ago
  Hmm, that's weird, I've been struck by the discover weekly' she ability to serve up song after song I've never heard before, maybe two or three out of the thirty are familiar on average. But it's mainly just a discovery service. Since I tend to like idiosyncratic music, it works well for me in a way that other services never did. Pandora in particular always played the most obvious, well known tracks, based on the starting point.
kochthesecond 10y ago
I love discover weekly too. I have found at least three bands that now are among my all time favorites and i bought all their releases on bandcamp
mjmahone17 10y ago
Rdio had significantly better "play random songs I probably like". And you could select the level of discovery vs. familiarity you wanted. The only reason my Spotify discover weekly is good is because I made sure to save all the songs I had previously saved with rdio.

by b1daly 10y ago

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tukum 10y ago

back in the days last.fm had similar functionality, at least I discovered many artists that are my favourites now there. But I'm struggling with Spotify Discover: - Discover Weekly includes tracks that I have listened to before on Spotify. At first I thought it is a bug, but then I read somewhere else that it is a feature as somebody thought that people like hearing something familiar among new songs. Well, not me, but, OK, let it be. - there is no option to ban tracks or artists for life in Spotify - there are many independent and not so independent artists on Spotify with questionable quality (to my taste) Combining all 3 above, in my Discovery Weekly I get tracks that I absolutely hate and I have to skip them. And they come up again and again as there is no way to tell Spotify - please stop delivering this track/artist to me. In last.fm I encountered cases where it suggested me artists that I absolutely hated. I could see how it was similar to my other favourites, but apparently the algorithms did not see why I should hate this. At least last.fm allowed to ban those tracks forever. It still did not allow to ban artist so I had to ban all tracks for that artist (as the algorithm still suggested other tracks by the artists whose tracks I had ban before). In addition, it is true that distribution industry is/was gatekeeper to many artists, but at the same time it saved me from all the low quality music that I am exposed to in Spotify. Instead now I have to spend my own time to filter that out (which generally applies to all information in this age). Overall I would have better experience in Spotify if there was this ban feature. Although there are feature requests about banning songs, Spotify is not rushing implementing this. Then I'm left thinking if Spotify is worth it and should I cancel my subscription.

joshuakcockrell 10y ago
The way you tune Discover Weekly is by saving the songs you like, and skipping the ones you don't. If you save a track to your library or into a playlist you've made it won't appear in future Discover Weekly playlists.
b1daly 10y ago
Hmm, that's weird, I've been struck by the discover weekly' she ability to serve up song after song I've never heard before, maybe two or three out of the thirty are familiar on average. But it's mainly just a discovery service. Since I tend to like idiosyncratic music, it works well for me in a way that other services never did. Pandora in particular always played the most obvious, well known tracks, based on the starting point.

kochthesecond 10y ago

I love discover weekly too. I have found at least three bands that now are among my all time favorites and i bought all their releases on bandcamp

mjmahone17 10y ago

Rdio had significantly better "play random songs I probably like". And you could select the level of discovery vs. familiarity you wanted. The only reason my Spotify discover weekly is good is because I made sure to save all the songs I had previously saved with rdio.