[utucuro]

This is was weird to read... I was a Spotify user for a rather long time, but realized that instead of getting better, recommendations got worse, ultimately becoming quite repetitive. I've since ditched them, now using Deezer. The difference is like day and night - with Deezer, if I want it to generate a playlist based on a particular song, I actually get a playlist of songs which are similar to the one I chose and not just the popular songs of bands similar to the band of the song... As for Discover Weekly, it was the worst offender, rehashing stuff Spotify knew I had listened to.

[KnobbleMcKnees]

That is strange as it's not my experience, but I don't know how the algorithm functions internally. Sadly we are at the whim of it's hits and it's misses.

I am however left to assume, based on Spotify's broad success and appeal, that it hits a bit more frequently than it misses.