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>streaming music with a user-seeded playlist... just hard to get excited about in 2018. Or 2008 really. The only reason why I think that may be the case is bec

>streaming music with a user-seeded playlist... just hard to get excited about in 2018. Or 2008 really. The only reason why I think that may be the case is because Pandora has been doing it so well for a long time. I've never managed to get that out of other services. Am I doing things wrong? I'm all ears for suggestions, especially now that Pandora might go through some changes due to acquisition.

nightfly 8y ago
Youtube music has done a decent job for me, better than anything Spotify has suggested, but still nowhere as good as Pandora.
- solarkraft 8y ago
  Spotify often suggests me songs I already like but haven't listened to on the platform, which is a good sign to me. The suggestions are also just diverse enough for me to discover new stuff. I don't know Pandora or Youtube (though I have generally bad experience with its suggestions), but am pretty happy with Spotify.
  - romwell 8y ago
    >Spotify often suggests me songs I already like but haven't listened to on the platform This is exactly why I like Pandora, to the point of it being eerie at times. Like that one time when I was listening to a Trans Am[1] CD in my car, and thought - well, I've listened to that disk enough times already; let's listen to something new on Pandora -- and it gave me that exact track, while the band never popped up on any of my stations before! The band was not a station seed, and it's not a band with a huge presence either - I got their CD randomly somewhere. I know it's a coincidence, but just goes to show how well their algorithms are tuned. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Am_(band) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Am_(band)
- romwell 8y ago
  Yes. The thing with Youtube is that it only can use one song as a seed, whereas with a Pandora station, you use multiple positive and negative seeds to trim the station to your taste. It's like comparing weeds growing in your backyard to a carefully trimmed bonsai tree. However, I'd go to Youtube for hand-picked playlists. There's always a place for that.

nightfly 8y ago

Youtube music has done a decent job for me, better than anything Spotify has suggested, but still nowhere as good as Pandora.

solarkraft 8y ago
Spotify often suggests me songs I already like but haven't listened to on the platform, which is a good sign to me. The suggestions are also just diverse enough for me to discover new stuff. I don't know Pandora or Youtube (though I have generally bad experience with its suggestions), but am pretty happy with Spotify.
- romwell 8y ago
  >Spotify often suggests me songs I already like but haven't listened to on the platform This is exactly why I like Pandora, to the point of it being eerie at times. Like that one time when I was listening to a Trans Am[1] CD in my car, and thought - well, I've listened to that disk enough times already; let's listen to something new on Pandora -- and it gave me that exact track, while the band never popped up on any of my stations before! The band was not a station seed, and it's not a band with a huge presence either - I got their CD randomly somewhere. I know it's a coincidence, but just goes to show how well their algorithms are tuned. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Am_(band) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Am_(band)
romwell 8y ago
Yes. The thing with Youtube is that it only can use one song as a seed, whereas with a Pandora station, you use multiple positive and negative seeds to trim the station to your taste. It's like comparing weeds growing in your backyard to a carefully trimmed bonsai tree. However, I'd go to Youtube for hand-picked playlists. There's always a place for that.