[MrDrMcCoy]

My tastes have always been niche enough that most record store employees would give me the "deer in the headlights" look or condescend to me when I asked for a particular artist or similar that I found on Last.fm.

If the database quality of current Last.fm were similar to its state back when it had radio, I would think that an AI trained on their data would be pretty good. With the current state of it... It would have to be crap. Heck, even if an AI model could be trained on the play counts of every song of every user on every streaming service, I'm not sure it could approach the curated relational algorithm that Last.fm had at its peak. Would definitely love to see an attempt, though.