[earlz]

You can do this if you right click and do play song/artist radio.. but in my experience it sucks really bad, and has only gotten worse over time. Use to, it was kinda useful. Now it's complete garbage. I'm not sure what they changed in their algorithm but typically when I do this I get 5 artists that are only marginally related, and then it proceeds to play music from those 5 artists in a loop and the "dislike this" feature seems to do nothing. I've actually disliked a song and then it came on about 20 minutes later.

[Scarblac]

I have a playlist of a lot of songs I like (except I try to keep it to one or two songs per band).

The radio from that converges to endless Foo Fighters and The Prodigy -- over half the songs!

It's not that I dislike them, but I don't particularly love them either and there is just no diversity on that station.

[krisdol]

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.

[Scarblac]

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.