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Re:The Dynamics of Music Exploration on Spotify by pragmatick on Friday July 29, 2022 @03:56AM (#32274211)
My experience is completely different. The weekly dynamic playlists are very poor (either completely the wrong genre or songs I regularly listen to in the case of the monday playlist). The daily playlists regularly play the same songs by an artist. It seems to me that spotify only uses the top 2 or 3 songs and nothing else. I'd say that of a specific genre it will play 40 to 50 songs and then repeat them.
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Re:The Dynamics of Music Exploration on Spotify by sanitycheck on Friday July 29, 2022 @09:06AM (#32276323)
Same, the only way I can reliably find new music I like on Spotify is to find compilation albums that artists I know feature on and listen to the other tracks.

Then a couple of years later half the new music I found is no longer on Spotify. I've largely given up on it.

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Re:The Dynamics of Music Exploration on Spotify by hackernewds on Friday July 29, 2022 @06:18AM (#32275163)
Even randomizing your existing playlist plays the same music over and misses most of them. Not to mention the UI and flows are pretty terrible for a software that dominates the space.
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