The Apple Music recommendations have been pretty good for me, particularly when autoplaying based on a song/playlist. Which came as a surprise because I always found the Spotify ones to be pretty useless.

Especially with the autoplay functionality on Spotify, after a while it would always throw in some songs that just did not fit in at all with the rest, and it made for a jarring experience. I've never really had that happen with Apple Music.

I’ve tried apples , agree it does less egregious stuff than Spotify but doesn’t really meet the bar for “good” in my experience. This stuff is probably really dependent on what you are looking for I imagine .

Spotify's algorithm has worked very well for me in the past.

I'm pretty sure it's not LLM based though, but rather domain specific, or possibly just a simple recommendation engine ("people who like x also often enjoy y").

Not my experience at all, fwiw.

Yeah but didn’t Spotify kill any community features long ago?

YouTubes algorithm (especially before they nerfed it) is often outstanding at it, pulling undiscovered gems that completely match your tastes.