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by fori1to10 3175 days ago
Google Music's "I'm feeling lucky" is awesome. This is very subjective, but I feel it makes much better predictions as to what I'll like than Spotify. Maybe someone else has a different experience?
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Google Music was, in my opinion, the industry's greatest music discovery service back when it used to have the "Explore" tab where you could drill down through genres and sub-genres to find popular or classic albums within that genre. It also used to give me much better recommendations on the homepage for new albums that I might like.

It's all gone down hill since they switched everything to mood-based radios. I feel like the main problem is that I like to listen to albums and Google seems to assume I only want to listen to random streams of disconnected singles. I seem to just get played the same stuff over and over, too.

I don't know how to find new (new to me, not the world) music anymore. Are there any good services that anyone recommends?

> I don't know how to find new (new to me, not the world) music anymore. Are there any good services that anyone recommends?

I have the same problem. Usually I find new stuff on the various music subreddits and last.fm's Similar Artists page. Even though I have tons of playlists and saved songs on Spotify, their recommendations usually suck (probably because I listen to just about every music genre under the sun.)

Their radio feature rehashes the same songs I've heard dozens of times, and Discover Weekly is usually so awful I never listen to it.