> if ML is so powerful why does Spotify exclusively serve up the steamiest of dog sh$t?"
Has popular sentiment turned against Spotify’s algorithms? I thought their recommendation system was their most-respected feature – in my own experience at least, Discover Weekly continues to be Spotify’s moat.
I have pretty diverse music taste, and Spotify's discover weekly is nearly universally bad for me. My wife's taste is less broad, and hers is much better.
I listen to a wide range of music and Spotify's recommendations had been really good for me. But more recently they have gotten terrible. It's really annoying and has made the service much less useful.
I recently switched to Tidal, and decent recommendations are what I miss the most. While I prefer getting music recommendations from an actual person with similar taste, Spotify was generally good enough.
That's more than can be said for Tidal. My recommendation playlists generally contain tracks and artists I already listen to (sometimes from completely unrelated genres), sprinkled with what seems to be random tracks from the "more like this" section of said artists.
Still not enough to compensate for the shit stream quality and ever increasing price of Spotify though...
My range is pretty broad as well, and over all I'm extremely happy with Discover Weekly. It's probably my primary vehicle for finding new music today, honestly. But it does seem to be pretty hit or miss for other people, for some reason.
Lol what. Spotify has always been subpar on recommendations. Their moat is their brand, catalog and users. Discover Weekly is not even remotely a moat, it's trivial for anyone to make something similar or better. For me, discover weekly gives me less songs that I like than just turning on a good old radio channel
It's far too hidden to be their main feature. For a completely new user, it's not promoted as such. It's at best one of the many colourful "tiles" you can click on.
I've never noticed Spotify's recommendation engine is very good, but I came from Pandora.
What drives me absolutely bonkers is the number of foreign language songs in Spotify's recommendation engine for me. No matter how many times I say "never play this song again" to every foreign language song, give it about 5-10 more songs and it'll play another one.
I've never knowingly listened to a foreign language song
Has popular sentiment turned against Spotify’s algorithms? I thought their recommendation system was their most-respected feature – in my own experience at least, Discover Weekly continues to be Spotify’s moat.