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You are probably an exception in how much you care because of history. Spotify to me stinks because they keep recommending the same 20 songs to me.

dmix 3y ago
No way I'm an exception. Every person I know is obsessed with the weekly discovery list... It's a major reason Spotify is as popular as it is. It sounds like you don't really listen to music if you're only getting the same songs. I don't see how that's possible in any other way, unless youre the one listening to the same small group of songs and it has no data to make useful recommendedations.
- DoesntMatter22 3y ago
  Every person you know? That's nuts because I know 20 or 30 people who use Spotify and none of them even mention that. I'm guessing it's an age gap thing
  - dmix 3y ago
    Weird it's a common thing that music discovery was basically solved by Spotify. You don't have to follow blogs, magazines, review sites, or seek out recommendations etc. Making playlist for friends was also common but now I feel way less of a need now since I know Spotify will do a better job of tailoring it to them so I just occasionally share individual songs. I'm 35 not sure how old you are but Ive been using Spotify forever and recommendations has been a major part of that UX. And I used Last.fm before that like 40 million other people, which Spotify killed after ending their deal with lastfm and building their own one. Considering you don't get proper recommendations says enough about how much you use it IMO. You won't get anything back if you don't tell it what you like aka listening to music often.
    - DoesntMatter22 3y ago
      I'm 42. I listen to spotify nearly everyday, though I'm not nearly as interested as you in finding the latest music as you are. I'm sure there is a significant segment who loves the discovery like you, and that segment is probably in the millions buy its probably still the minority. Even in this thread you are the only one I've seen mention this specific aspect. Most people probably don't care except for a segment of ultra interested people like yourself. Fwiw YT Music gives me a huge variety of songs it suggests for me at least. A good example is radio. If you pick a song and do radio Spotify will start to repeat songs after 7 or 8 of them. YT doesn't do it nearly as often. Ymmv

dmix 3y ago

No way I'm an exception. Every person I know is obsessed with the weekly discovery list... It's a major reason Spotify is as popular as it is. It sounds like you don't really listen to music if you're only getting the same songs. I don't see how that's possible in any other way, unless youre the one listening to the same small group of songs and it has no data to make useful recommendedations.

DoesntMatter22 3y ago
Every person you know? That's nuts because I know 20 or 30 people who use Spotify and none of them even mention that. I'm guessing it's an age gap thing
- dmix 3y ago
  Weird it's a common thing that music discovery was basically solved by Spotify. You don't have to follow blogs, magazines, review sites, or seek out recommendations etc. Making playlist for friends was also common but now I feel way less of a need now since I know Spotify will do a better job of tailoring it to them so I just occasionally share individual songs. I'm 35 not sure how old you are but Ive been using Spotify forever and recommendations has been a major part of that UX. And I used Last.fm before that like 40 million other people, which Spotify killed after ending their deal with lastfm and building their own one. Considering you don't get proper recommendations says enough about how much you use it IMO. You won't get anything back if you don't tell it what you like aka listening to music often.
  - DoesntMatter22 3y ago
    I'm 42. I listen to spotify nearly everyday, though I'm not nearly as interested as you in finding the latest music as you are. I'm sure there is a significant segment who loves the discovery like you, and that segment is probably in the millions buy its probably still the minority. Even in this thread you are the only one I've seen mention this specific aspect. Most people probably don't care except for a segment of ultra interested people like yourself. Fwiw YT Music gives me a huge variety of songs it suggests for me at least. A good example is radio. If you pick a song and do radio Spotify will start to repeat songs after 7 or 8 of them. YT doesn't do it nearly as often. Ymmv