[alexpotato]

> * Spotify's weekly picks used to be pretty good at recommending new music, although it's actually got worse in the last 2-3 years.

In a similar vein, I remember using Pandora for the first time in the late 00's and thinking "Is this software reading my mind??" as it picked song I either already loved or a new song I like immediately.

Amazon Music, YouTube etc all feel like it's some version of "this what other people liked" but that just spirals me into some very specific genre.

I haven't had an experience similar to that first Pandora one in tech in a long time.

[blowski]

Yes! In 2010, it could say "Oh you like Leonard Cohen? Maybe you'll like Jonathan Richman.", which was a great jump. Now, it's more like "Oh, you like Simon and Garfunkel? Here's a bland cover of one of their songs."