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I hope SoundCloud manages to hang on somehow. I've found it much better for music discovery then I have Spotify, mainly because I've really diligent in curating

I hope SoundCloud manages to hang on somehow. I've found it much better for music discovery then I have Spotify, mainly because I've really diligent in curating my list of who I follow and as a result, each day when I open my stream, I'll get a a few hours of new and unusual electronica sets to listen to. Without SoundCloud I never would have found genres like 170 Drum'n'Bass or Dark Disco. With Spotify, I'll just get... the Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Foo Fighters. Both bands that are somehow in the centre of the Venn diagram of musical taste. The only thing that's come close to this is YouTube's recommendations. Somehow the YouTube algorithm has decided that I need to be shown weird and wonderful full length albums of Japanese funk and jazz from the 80s. When I read the comments on the videos, they're inevitably from other people that are equally bewildered about why they got recommended the album too.

pipeline_peak 4y ago
> With Spotify, I'll just get... the Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Foo Fighters Are you sure you made good use of it? When I first got on, I’d go on the indie music playlists and get excellent stuff. After about 4 months, the “good stuff” tapped out and now I get very gen Z sounding indie. Or if I look for 90s indie I get……..the breeders sigh.
- Rodeoclash 4y ago
  I was being facetious haha. Spotify will sometimes throw up some good recommendations but the engine seems firmly in the camp of giving me more music that sounds the same as what I'm listening to. A good example is I might listen to some Depeche Mode. Now, because I listen to Depeche Mode, that doesn't mean I want to listen to more stuff like it from the 80s. However, Spotify will quite happily throw up Erasure, The Cure etc as follow ups. What I want is stuff with a vibe that's like Depeche Mode but can be in totally different genres. From that era I'd say Sisters of Mercy were closer in vibe but the music isn't as electronica based. Or if I wanted something modern in the same vein, Curses would be similar fit. I guess Spotify is paying attention to this, but rather than using what is in the same playlist as a signal for shared taste, pay attention to what song someone intentionally plays after the song they're on.

pipeline_peak 4y ago

> With Spotify, I'll just get... the Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Foo Fighters Are you sure you made good use of it? When I first got on, I’d go on the indie music playlists and get excellent stuff. After about 4 months, the “good stuff” tapped out and now I get very gen Z sounding indie. Or if I look for 90s indie I get……..the breeders sigh.

Rodeoclash 4y ago
I was being facetious haha. Spotify will sometimes throw up some good recommendations but the engine seems firmly in the camp of giving me more music that sounds the same as what I'm listening to. A good example is I might listen to some Depeche Mode. Now, because I listen to Depeche Mode, that doesn't mean I want to listen to more stuff like it from the 80s. However, Spotify will quite happily throw up Erasure, The Cure etc as follow ups. What I want is stuff with a vibe that's like Depeche Mode but can be in totally different genres. From that era I'd say Sisters of Mercy were closer in vibe but the music isn't as electronica based. Or if I wanted something modern in the same vein, Curses would be similar fit. I guess Spotify is paying attention to this, but rather than using what is in the same playlist as a signal for shared taste, pay attention to what song someone intentionally plays after the song they're on.