[quxbar]

> They are not suggesting new, very interesting melodies. They are finding you the tweaked versions of the songs you already like and, even on your first listen you can predict the melody that’s to come

This seems like the complaint of somebody who hasn't been using spotify very long. After a decade plus, I feel like my algorithm is a rich compost pile of all of my previous phases of music. Spotify is excellent at letting me broaden my horizons or jump down a rabbit hole from a random starting point, like a song I hear in a public space or commercial or something sent by a friend. Maybe the OP should keep their ears open to more sources of randomness from the outside world?

[InitialLastName]

I feel the opposite: my Spotify recs (after at least 8 years with an account) tend to get stuck on whatever I've been listening to recently. I've had to consistently go afield to find any new (to me) music. Even their "new releases for you" falls short of recommending me releases from artists I follow. How much less capable could it be?

[gs17]

Release Radar is consistently the worst feature of Spotify. It misses entire new albums from artists I listen to regularly, and seems to have a quota of songs to fill so after the first two or three it's no longer aligned with my interests. I can forgive it not being coherent since it's supposed to include multiple genres together, but I can't forgive it going way off from what I like just to hit 30 songs.

[InitialLastName]

Not even Release Radar, but the "New Releases for You" list should probably have new releases by the artists I follow (as a basic minimum).

[gs17]

Huh, I don't even have that section on my Spotify. I have a "New music you need to hear this week" at the very bottom (none of it is anything I need to hear this week), but it's just generic "new music in X genre" playlists.

[johncalvinyoung]

This is my experience as well... I have a very broad music taste but with some main themes. I find Spotify's algorithm (11 years of Premium) to regularly surface things I'll like, whether new music from artists I already know, music correlating strongly with known tastes, or every once in a while something that seems out of distribution but I like it anyway!

It probably helps that the strongest areas of my taste are relatively small or niche genres, like Scottish trad and Celtic (folk) rock. In those niches, similar-but-different is often distinctively different in actual experience. Sure, there's covers of the same song from time to time, but I actually do like enough of those not to be bothered, if they bring something new.