[digging]

Interesting! Too late for me; Spotify's declining recommendation capability was one of several issues that allowed me to cancel my subscription.

I really wish streaming services would just let us give conscious direction instead of trying to hack our brains. They're not as good at as they think.

[parabyl]

If you still want to give it a shot, you shouldn't need an active subscription for it to work. But I do totally get moving away from the streaming world. Even bandcamp is losing its ground as a safe a haven for making sure artists are paid their worth.

[imbnwa]

Wait, what changed at bandcamp?

[httpsterio]

it got sold to Epic Games a while back.

[parabyl]

yeah this is what I was referring to, thanks

[imbnwa]

Ah thanks

[eddd-ddde]

I find youtubes music algorithm to be on point most of the time for me. I just click one song and listen bunch of songs i enjoy, new and old.

[SleepyMyroslav]

Completely opposite experience. It quickly drifts either its own 'genre' playlist or your own history tops or nowhere. I find it much easier to pick some community playlist and it has more chances to be self consistent than any 10 radio songs played by yt music.

[jmholla]

Did you end up switching to a different platform? If so, which one?

[digging]

I continue to use YouTube, which is less dynamic (meaning, you can end up on an actually or nearly deterministic playlist starting at a given song, rather than on "random" songs), but really surfaces some incredible stuff. It does take more work to break out of a mold sometimes, but I tend to find more interesting things when I do. Plus every song is on there.

I also began using Tidal and I'm unsure if that's going to be a long-term thing for me. It's good so far but I find I'm not using it as much; I think it will take effort to get my library into its algorithm before it becomes really useful.

One problem with Spotify is it has a very poor memory. It would only focus on things I had recently listened to and almost never accounted for my full library of "liked" songs/albums when giving suggestions (so something like Pink Floyd, despite having many liked songs, would absolutely never appear on a generated playlist). I remember Pandora was even worse at this; I don't know why. Anyway it's too soon yet to tell if Tidal will do the same, but I don't have high hopes. Even YT tends to do this. It's extremely frustrating.