> Google looks forward to bringing back those genres/subgenres, and even microgenres, once they've had a chance to improve them and make them more scalable around the world.
That is a comment from a top contributor in the product forum. Thread is here https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/play/i9meVy...
Re:Netflix and Fill
by CamperBob2 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @07:33PM
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Wow, that thread is angrier than the Maps forum. Pretty impressive achievement on Google's part.
Re:Netflix and Fill
by chipperyman573 on Friday August 12, 2016 @01:28AM
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What's so bad about the maps forum?
Why not both? Maybe Sognza's playlists were a caching solution.
Re:Netflix and Fill
by mattmanser on Thursday August 11, 2016 @07:00PM
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Occam's razor.
dlandis is suggesting a pretty over-complicated, anti-consumer reason as to why google started pushing curated lists.
Or you can buy into the incredibly simple "because google bought Sognza to compete with spotify's curated lists".
If you've any evidence, please do share and I'm happy to put my hands up and admit I'm wrong, but the announcement was that the change was supposed to be because they now had these amazing hand curated playlists.