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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by prawn on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:33PM (#34606396)
Were you using Discover Weekly or similar? I've found Spotify helped me create a massive list of songs I really liked. My liked list is up over 2,000 and Discover Weekly will usually unearth another 10+ great options without fail each week, and similar with song or artist radio.

Wonder if it's preferred genres or something that happens with a certain playlist size?

(One of my gripes is that the shuffle on long lists isn't very good, but I solved that by splitting my main list into a few sub-playlists and then using shuffle on those.)

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by hjadal on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:45AM (#34609243)
My discover weekly used to be great, but at some point it broke and started suggesting me finnish, dutch and german music. Despite me always skipping them in the discover weekly.
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by mackrevinack on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:37PM (#34616341)
same here. i had much better results years ago but recently i think ive been getting someone elses discover weekly by mistake because there is hardly anything on it that i like
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by prawn on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:15PM (#34620186)
I often favour music without lyrics because it's less distracting in an office environment, so music by international artists doesn't bother me at all - might even be preferable. More interesting for my kids to hear international influences if we're listening in the car too.

I just checked my Discover Weekly for this week to see if maybe it had gone downhill, and fav'ed about 20+ out of 30. I think it must just work very well for the styles I like.

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by apercu on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:33PM (#34614188)
Weird. I usually call it "Discover Weakly" or "Discover Meekly" because it's usually about every 3rd week that I find a new artist.

I like all sorts of Americana but Spotify loves to feed me blues. I'm not all that in to "blues".

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