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> I noticed that Spotify would consistently "rabbithole" me into the same ~150 songs

I’ve noticed Apple Music doing this too. It used to not do it: discovered some wonderful music by saying “Play some music” and it would suggest new songs

Now, same small set of songs. Is there a way to force it to change? Like a different prompt



Just a theory, but I bet they (and Spotify) are sticking to songs that cost them less per play, when you get stuck on a group like this


There is no song that costs more. Labels are paid by the amount of streams they get in total. The distribution of money is made by the labels.


I wonder if the streaming services considered favoring longer songs to save on per stream fees.


It wouldn't save fees, because what Spotify does is allocate a percentage of their income to pay artists, and that's it. So whichever way this income is allocated, they are paying the same amount of money anyway.


Doesn't everyone just say "Play me one of the songs that someone else on the same CDN edge node recently listened to"? :)


clear the cache on the mobile client, Spotify may be caching songs locally to save on bandwidth.




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