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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by poglet on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:33PM (#34605990)
I like to find a new genera of music and if I like the song I will choose the radio option. Spotify says "Get a collection of songs based on any artist, album, playlist, or song, with Spotify Radio." but in my experience the radio playlist is not (only) based on the song I'm playing because it also mixes in a bunch of recently played songs that are normally unrelated to the song genera I'm listening to.
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by sph on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:13PM (#34606261)
That's the thing about Spotify's (and other music streaming services) recommendation engines: they're terrible DJs.

It puts completely unrelated songs together in the same mix, be it because of different genre, mood, energy. Only human-curated playlists and albums are good to play-and-forget; but at that point why do I need Spotify at all?

I pay Youtube begrudgingly to avoid ads, I might as well use their music service which has the exact same problem, rather than paying Spotify on top.

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