Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by myself248 on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:19PM (#19942159)

Yup, I've had to work around this. I'll pick a song I like, and do "song radio" to find more like it. But this makes a playlist which is basically 6 more similar artists, and no variety beyond that. But I want to branch out more, several steps beyond that. So I'll open a particular song from that playlist, go to "song radio" for that, and drag a bunch of songs I don't recognize back into the first playlist. Repeat this for a few more songs. Then once I've added a bunch more variety, do "playlist radio" again.

It's super obnoxious. I wish they had a slider for "be more adventurous" versus "hew close to the line". Do I remember Pandora having something like that?

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by kazga on Saturday May 18, 2019 @12:39PM (#19948332)

Spotify automatically creates a playlist from songs you've "liked" while they're playing on radio. So just start a certain song radio, like the kind of songs that go into the direction you want, and then start playlist radio on the "Liked from Radio" playlist.

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by c0vfefe on Monday May 20, 2019 @01:50PM (#19963027)

You can simulate the slider behavior you describe by thumbing up everything for more variety, or thumbing down everything for more restriction.

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