Spotify's music recommendation is great not because it's doing smart AI things, but because it gives you options for discovery. You have: - Playlists provided

Spotify's music recommendation is great not because it's doing smart AI things, but because it gives you options for discovery. You have: - Playlists provided by spotify and tagged with various terms. - User-made playlists (harder to find, but they exist, and many of them are fun!) - Discover Weekly, Release Radar, Daily mixes - generated playlists for your account with 6-7 variations on how they are biased. - Social features (see what your friends are listening to) - Radios for songs/albums/artists - Artist bios and "Fans also like" sections for each artist - Smart shuffle on playlists (every 3rd song is a recommendation) - A very permissive search box that lets you make mistakes (I hate competitors that punish me for writing things like "and" instead of "&" for an artist's name... I'm looking at you Tidal) - Configurable search APIs to build your own funky queries or extensions ... and probably a few more tools to use when discovering music. An AI recommendation system will NEVER beat flexibility and giving users agency. I don't care that an AI takes into consideration that I went to the gym automatically. I care about having lots of options for discovery, each that is decent and biased towards a different style of exploration.