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by ProfessorLayton 3329 days ago
I listen to entire albums too! But not from artists I've never heard of before, as is commonly the case in recommendations. It takes me a few listens from their singles to warm up to them, and then dig further into their discography.

"My New Music Mix" is updated 1x week for some inexplicable reason (I know Spotify does this too), while it seems to recommend albums programmatically based on likes/listening habits. Other playlists seem to be manually curated and recommended based on genre.

Understandably, there is just no way to expect manually curated playlists to cover everyone's personal tastes.

I believe it is possible to recommend songs/artists/albums without favoring one form of discoverability over the other as it is currently done.