[penpapersw]

Personally I'm both a nomad and a hoarder. About once a year I'll go on a week long spree finding new music and creating new playlists. The rest of the year I just listen to all those playlists plus my old ones. Neither Apple Music nor Spotify have a workflow specifically designed for this. Am I that unusual?

[Zikes]

I'm a nomad & hoarder on Google Play Music, and I find it's fairly well-suited to my habits. I have a large library of songs I like, and when I'm in the mood to discover something new I'll

a) Pick an artist and listen to "<Artist> Radio", which will quickly compile a playlist of music by and similar to that artist.

b) Sample some "Stations", which are usually themed around a genre, mood, or activity.

As I'm listening to the above, I'll Thumbs Up songs I like, which adds them to my library for more frequent listening later, and helps me to "bookmark" a new artist to browse the rest of their songs later if I want.

[mattnewton]

What is wrong with switching between playlists you have created and the discovery options in Spotify today? This sounds like my workflow, but I haven't been frustrated by the UI.

[penpapersw]

I've found it pretty hard to just say "I like this song, show me more like it" and then to be able to listen to each one, and conveniently add ones I like to one of a small set of playlists.

Instead, I have to right-click a song and choose "play a radio-station-thingy based on this song" (which usually is a stretch anyway and most of them are nothing like what I'm looking for), and for the few songs I do want to keep, I have to right-click them, find the "add to playlist menu", find the submenu item for the right playlist and click that, and try to re-find my place again in the song queue to start this all over again with the next song.

Maybe it's because I'm used to 90s software still and so I just don't know where the right buttons are, and I'm just clicking the wrong things, who knows.

[mattnewton]

Why not just add them to a playlist? At the bottom of the playlist, it will start generating suggestions based on the other songs already in it, that you can continually refresh

[chrisdbaldwin]

This is exactly how I've used Spotify for 5 years.