[gs17]

> it picks things you like from your favorite band - instruments, tempo, etc then finds bad knockoffs that are superficially similar but painful to listen to.

This is pretty bad if you have strong feelings about how much screaming a metal song should have. There are songs that fit exactly what I like except for that variable and Spotify does not get that I keep skipping them for a reason. It's rarely a "bad knockoff", but it definitely hits "painful to listen to".

It's really strange to me since it successfully creates playlists around different types of music that are sort of similar but shouldn't cluster together.