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Re:How to Find New Music by rchaud on Friday January 31, 2020 @11:28AM (#22202917)
I'd say it's because Spotify and others don't have an incentive to let users dig that deep. They want to keep things simple, whereas sites like Discogs and Rateyourmusic are designed to let you go deep into the details.

Streaming networks need users to be able to see something they can hit Play on, not have the user click on a producer's name and see no information and no tracks.

Re:How to Find New Music by chiefalchemist on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:30PM (#22205341)
It's a graph database. Nothing esoteric by any means. I shouldn't have to know Jagger & Richards are The Glimmer Twins, or Richard D. James is the Aphex Twin.

If Streaming Service X's value add is beige recommendations - and the music industry is content with such "product placement", then they both deserve to suffer. If only that pain was 10% of my boredom.