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It mostly boils down to the algorithm for me. I tried YouTube music for a few months and it felt much more spaghetti-at-the-wall than Spotify. My opinion is t
by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
It mostly boils down to the algorithm for me.
I tried YouTube music for a few months and it felt much more spaghetti-at-the-wall than Spotify.
My opinion is that this is because of the way that Spotify applies algorithm and curation in a highly unified way.
Spotify Radio, Release Radar and Discovery playlist are just wonderful. Right down to the ordering of the lists it accounts for broad tastes, current personal trends, building accessible gateways to new genres and so on.
YouTube Music felt a bit like the video algorithm. "You watched a Minecraft video? Prepare for the avalanche of tenuously related but quite obnoxious Minecraft content"
- utucuro 3y agoThis is was weird to read... I was a Spotify user for a rather long time, but realized that instead of getting better, recommendations got worse, ultimately becoming quite repetitive. I've since ditched them, now using Deezer. The difference is like day and night - with Deezer, if I want it to generate a playlist based on a particular song, I actually get a playlist of songs which are similar to the one I chose and not just the popular songs of bands similar to the band of the song... As for Discover Weekly, it was the worst offender, rehashing stuff Spotify knew I had listened to.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoThat is strange as it's not my experience, but I don't know how the algorithm functions internally. Sadly we are at the whim of it's hits and it's misses. I am however left to assume, based on Spotify's broad success and appeal, that it hits a bit more frequently than it misses.