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Add a 3rd. Stopped using Spotify because the recs downright annoying. I prefer to use YT Music s it seems thoroughly confused by having each person in family

Add a 3rd. Stopped using Spotify because the recs downright annoying. I prefer to use YT Music s it seems thoroughly confused by having each person in family use from my service account to the point the suggestions are general in nature. They still do not get played though. I refuse to click on suggestions in any product as that reinforces their data on me/us. I’m quite ok if any music engine thinks I’m a polyglot toddler with penchant for death metal, Thai ballads, and ancient Chinese orchestral Music. Such a profile makes me soooo much less likely to get other music or junk marketed to me ;-)

stavros 4y ago
Fourth, I've never found a recommendation engine I like. Maybe I have weird taste in music, but Spotify only ever recommended one song that I ended up loving (oddly, the very first one it ever did).
- LigmaYC 4y ago
  Fifth, Spotify recommendations have only ever given me 1 song that I liked over the 3 years I used spotify.
  - lokedhs 4y ago
    At this point adding numbers to the people agreeing seems pointless, but I'm also in this cat3egory. Sure, I've had some good recommendations, but I'd expect any recommendation engine to do that just by chance. What I can say is that Spotify has never proposed something truly new and interesting to me. If I listen to a lot of metal, it'll recommend me the most bland stuff in the same genre. What's even worse is that it keeps playing the same songs over and over again. It's like the recommendation engine just gives up and starts repeating its suggestions again.
    - _carbyau_ 4y ago
      Your last paragraph is why I got rid of Spotify. I like music to move me. It was amazing how I could start a run of upbeat, pumping, specifically chosen songs and then have the recommendation engine suggest 30 minutes of cruisy blandness.. I simply gave up on it. Why have access to everything when I only got the crap. Going back to my personal collection increased my good/bad song ratio considerably.

stavros 4y ago

Fourth, I've never found a recommendation engine I like. Maybe I have weird taste in music, but Spotify only ever recommended one song that I ended up loving (oddly, the very first one it ever did).

LigmaYC 4y ago
Fifth, Spotify recommendations have only ever given me 1 song that I liked over the 3 years I used spotify.
- lokedhs 4y ago
  At this point adding numbers to the people agreeing seems pointless, but I'm also in this cat3egory. Sure, I've had some good recommendations, but I'd expect any recommendation engine to do that just by chance. What I can say is that Spotify has never proposed something truly new and interesting to me. If I listen to a lot of metal, it'll recommend me the most bland stuff in the same genre. What's even worse is that it keeps playing the same songs over and over again. It's like the recommendation engine just gives up and starts repeating its suggestions again.
  - _carbyau_ 4y ago
    Your last paragraph is why I got rid of Spotify. I like music to move me. It was amazing how I could start a run of upbeat, pumping, specifically chosen songs and then have the recommendation engine suggest 30 minutes of cruisy blandness.. I simply gave up on it. Why have access to everything when I only got the crap. Going back to my personal collection increased my good/bad song ratio considerably.