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On the other side of this, I love how easy it is to find new music on Spotify! Every week, the "Discover Weekly" playlist nets me at least one or two new artist

On the other side of this, I love how easy it is to find new music on Spotify! Every week, the "Discover Weekly" playlist nets me at least one or two new artists I end up loving.

tj-teej 9y ago
Discover Weekly will suggest a song I loved 10 years ago and completely forgot about. It's really great stuff.
shostack 9y ago
I've found I almost exclusively listen to "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" during my commutes, and every now and then grab a song for some playlists for other times. I do wish there were better ways to shape what songs end up in there as sometimes it can be a bit of a miss.
jqbx_jason 9y ago
If you ever get tired of Discover Weekly give JQBX[1] a try. I built it so that I could bust out of the same old genres Spotify tends to re-suggest every week. [1] https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm
- rileyt 9y ago
  This is neat! It's cool how powerful Spotify's API is. I built Amplitude [1], which uses Spotify's recommendations API to create artist based discovery playlists, if you need more new music than Discover Weekly provides and also Rediscover [2], to save your discover weekly playlists so you don't lose songs. [1] https://amplitudeapp.com/ https://amplitudeapp.com/ [2] https://rediscover.rile.yt/ https://rediscover.rile.yt/
- sp00ls 9y ago
  This looks great, I'm definitely going to give it a try. Spotify has been slowly driving me crazy with the same exact songs in my daily mixes day after day just reshuffling.
  - dabockster 9y ago
    This is the big reason why I switched to Apple Music. Spotify has an amazing UI/UX, but it doesn't change the fact that I don't want to listen to the same stuff each week. I have FM radio for that.
- tim-- 9y ago
  Jason, this is amazing! Every few years I look for something that will be able to suggest new/different music to listen to, and the product gets killed. Spotify used to have apps which had something like this (... I forget the name of the app), it's good to have a replacement. I would happily pay $1 a month for this. Where is the $12 a year subscription?
lolive 9y ago
I am a subscriber of Spotify, because I follow the "This Week's Releases" playlist of jlarome. It is some kind of ancestor of the automatic algorithms, but I always find some interesting new stuff in genres that I rarely listen to, otherwise. cf https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6KErOvRQFEAnY5SdrrBDOD https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6KErOvRQFEAnY... (and https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6CfIDri6dejaBC1WMUbin0 https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6CfIDri6dejaB... for "Last week's releases").

On the other side of this, I love how easy it is to find new music on Spotify! Every week, the "Discover Weekly" playlist nets me at least one or two new artists I end up loving.

tj-teej 9y ago

Discover Weekly will suggest a song I loved 10 years ago and completely forgot about. It's really great stuff.

shostack 9y ago

I've found I almost exclusively listen to "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" during my commutes, and every now and then grab a song for some playlists for other times. I do wish there were better ways to shape what songs end up in there as sometimes it can be a bit of a miss.

jqbx_jason 9y ago

If you ever get tired of Discover Weekly give JQBX[1] a try. I built it so that I could bust out of the same old genres Spotify tends to re-suggest every week. [1] https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm

rileyt 9y ago
This is neat! It's cool how powerful Spotify's API is. I built Amplitude [1], which uses Spotify's recommendations API to create artist based discovery playlists, if you need more new music than Discover Weekly provides and also Rediscover [2], to save your discover weekly playlists so you don't lose songs. [1] https://amplitudeapp.com/ https://amplitudeapp.com/ [2] https://rediscover.rile.yt/ https://rediscover.rile.yt/
sp00ls 9y ago
This looks great, I'm definitely going to give it a try. Spotify has been slowly driving me crazy with the same exact songs in my daily mixes day after day just reshuffling.
- dabockster 9y ago
  This is the big reason why I switched to Apple Music. Spotify has an amazing UI/UX, but it doesn't change the fact that I don't want to listen to the same stuff each week. I have FM radio for that.
tim-- 9y ago
Jason, this is amazing! Every few years I look for something that will be able to suggest new/different music to listen to, and the product gets killed. Spotify used to have apps which had something like this (... I forget the name of the app), it's good to have a replacement. I would happily pay $1 a month for this. Where is the $12 a year subscription?

lolive 9y ago

I am a subscriber of Spotify, because I follow the "This Week's Releases" playlist of jlarome. It is some kind of ancestor of the automatic algorithms, but I always find some interesting new stuff in genres that I rarely listen to, otherwise. cf https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6KErOvRQFEAnY5SdrrBDOD https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6KErOvRQFEAnY... (and https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6CfIDri6dejaBC1WMUbin0 https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6CfIDri6dejaB... for "Last week's releases").