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by colund 857 days ago
I feel the same way about Spotify. It reminds me of Netflix in that it's hard for me to find interesting content to consume. I wish there was a way to become a power user, enabling me to better organize my audio library and delve deeper into their extensive collection to uncover new, intriguing music.

Moreover, the fact that artists seem to be paid so little makes me increasingly inclined to consider leaving their service for something else, like Tidal, or simply using YouTube Music.

By the way, if anyone is working on a Spotify killer, feel free to reach out. It would be fun to help out.

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> I feel the same way about Spotify. It reminds me of Netflix in that it's hard for me to find interesting content to consume. I wish there was a way to become a power user, enabling me to better organize my audio library and delve deeper into their extensive collection to uncover new, intriguing music.

I have the exact opposite experience on Spotify, I canceled my Netflix subscription because I got tired of being stuck scrolling trying to find something to watch.

On Spotify I have my playlists, including an "Inbox" playlist for sorting later when I find interesting new music. On playlists it used to be able to start a "radio" for recommendations based on the playlist's content, that has moved to the "Enhance" feature which will interleave some tracks on an existing playlist, I can add the tracks I like to the playlist and ignore the ones I didn't like, then refresh the "Enhance" feature to get new recommendations.

When I'm listening to some weird ass music that I want to discover more artists/tracks on a similar genre I will start a track or album radio, when I stumble upon a track that I like I will add to a matching playlist or simply put into my "Inbox" one to sort later.

I've done that for the past 10+ years and have discovered many, many artists and songs this way, even completely new genres that I liked.