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> How is Spotify for finding new music based on your tastes? I haven't tried any alternatives really, but so far for me I'd say decent. I put on an album, and
by magicalhippo 3y ago
> How is Spotify for finding new music based on your tastes?
I haven't tried any alternatives really, but so far for me I'd say decent. I put on an album, and once over it'll play similarish stuff. If I don't like a song I'll skip it and it seems to incorporate that feedback.
Only thing is that it doesn't seem to be too adventurous and it adheres rather strictly to the local context. Meaning, if I played a stoner rock track, it'll continue suggesting stoner rock and not much else, even though I have quite varied music favorited in my library.
Overall though I've found a lot of new bands I enjoy that way so, positive experience for me.
edit: as an example, here are the two most recent ones it suggested where I ended up buying the albums on Bandcamp. Both have quite few monthly listeners (1-2k), so not what I'd call mainstream.
SUIR https://open.spotify.com/artist/6zOeQ2hyNfqi9UMHtyTSlF https://open.spotify.com/artist/6zOeQ2hyNfqi9UMHtyTSlF
Mount Hush https://open.spotify.com/artist/13clfeXxTPsDsqzSlLIBZJ https://open.spotify.com/artist/13clfeXxTPsDsqzSlLIBZJ
- seanw444 3y agoI'll +1. I'm generally a FOSS guy, so if Spotify hadn't helped so much in discovering new music that I really enjoy, I'd be potentially acquiring music via questionable means and just playing them as audio files directly. There are two companies that have done well by Gabe Newell's "piracy is a service problem - not a price problem" position: Valve/Steam (who also contribute to FOSS through Proton and SteamOS which I heavily appreciate), and Spotify. Spotify makes discovering and aggregating music so easy that the alternatives don't seem appealing.