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0 pointskrisdol10y ago0 comments

I understand, suggestions still have issues. I listen to a lot of more obscurely specific genres, and sometimes will get just a couple of repeated songs if I make a radio based on a lesser-known artist.

That said, if you haven't given the Spotify Weekly Recommendations a shot -- you should. Maybe it's because it has more data to work with than song/artist/playlist-specific radios, but for me that feature has been extremely spot-on. In fact, I hadn't used spotify for a while because I kept hearing the same songs, but now I religiously keep on top of my discoveries each week.

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Scarblac10y ago

I agree on the weekly discoveries, they are great. The radios, at least the playlist radios, are crap.

It seems like the radios point me towards the most common denominator and plays the most mainstream stuff that matches, while the weekly discovery lists come up with some very quirky stuff that I love.

I guess the radios can't have any "memory", it seems to generate close to one song at a time (hence a lot of repetitions), whereas the discovery list can be created 30 songs at a time and seems to go out of its way to find songs by bands that I've never listened to.

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