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Spotify's discovery engine playlists (Discover Weekly and Release Radar) just don't work for me. I now ignore both playlists and I suspect that the lists are in
by kolp 9y ago
Spotify's discovery engine playlists (Discover Weekly and Release Radar) just don't work for me. I now ignore both playlists and I suspect that the lists are influenced by payola.
I've tried training the algo by following artists and saving albums in the style that I would like, but these playlists keep peddling stuff that is way off the mark. Interestingly, the daily mix playlists have responded to this training, but not Discover Weekly or Release Radar.
For users who are tired of the same songs being fed to these playlists each week, you can create an IFTTT action to save the content of these playlists in separate archive playlists. Once a song is in the archive, it won't (or shouldn't) appear in either of the weekly so-called discovery playlists.
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- ahmetkun 9y agoThey don't work for me either. Most of the songs I like in these playlists are the songs I already listened to hundreds of times.
- freetonik 9y ago> Once a song is in the archive, it won't (or shouldn't) appear in either of the weekly so-called discovery playlists. They still do, sometimes, at least for me. But more importantly, adding songs to playlists sends the positive signal to Spotify’s recommendation engine, as far as I know. So, saving all your discover weekly tracks into archive playlists will encourage Spotify to give you similar music in the future.