Discover weekly is hit and miss for me. Some weeks I find plenty of great material, and others I find a lot of junk - that being said I can understand it would be hard to match music you'd like all the time.
Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?
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#12Here's my current discover weekly playlist: http://imgur.com/a/6l5bN
The songs with a checkmark are the ones I've liked and added to my collection. I haven't finished listening to the playlist yet, but I like almost every song that it recommends. The songs I didn't save aren't bad either and I've never had a recommended song which I totally disliked.
It's incredible how it can suggest songs of various genres and still hit my sweet spot.
So I don't agree with tfa.
I would love to be able to re-generate the playlist on demand and also suggest the 'direction' in which it should go - like 'mellower', 'harder', 'sweeter', etc.
But all in all, Spotify is doing a really great job.
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#13Despite Spotify's vastly superior user interface and a much quicker Android app, I've found myself switching to Apple music for the singular reason that their curated playlists are much, much better than Spotify's. I don't have the hours and hours to spend online on music blogs downloading obscure MP3s like I did while I was at university, trawling through to find stuff I like. So now finding new music is more of a c…
If you used to like finding new music through blogs, Hype machine does a pretty awesome job of taking the pain out of trawling for new stuff. They aggregate everything for you on their site so you just see and stream a playlist of music from all of the blogs you follow.
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#14Here's my current discover weekly playlist: http://imgur.com/a/6l5bN The songs with a checkmark are the ones I've liked and added to my collection. I haven't finished listening to the playlist yet, but I like almost every song that it recommends. The songs I didn't save aren't bad either and I've never had a recommended song which I totally disliked. It's incredible how it can suggest songs of various genres and stil…
How long have you been using the Discover Weekly function? After almost a year, I find my current discover weekly playlist looks very similar to yours. I have a similarly large number of check marks against songs in the list, but not because I've recently added them. Or recently discovered them.
I've since switched to the Daily Mixes, which also seem to have the same stuff most days, and then Release Radar, which finally now gives me something fresh.
So +1 for Release Radar, but everywhere else I feel is lacking, and ultimately, I do agree with tfa.
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#15Here's my current discover weekly playlist: http://imgur.com/a/6l5bN The songs with a checkmark are the ones I've liked and added to my collection. I haven't finished listening to the playlist yet, but I like almost every song that it recommends. The songs I didn't save aren't bad either and I've never had a recommended song which I totally disliked. It's incredible how it can suggest songs of various genres and stil…
How long have you been using the Discover Weekly function? After almost a year, I find my current discover weekly playlist looks very similar to yours. I have a similarly large number of check marks against songs in the list, but not because I've recently added them. Or recently discovered them. I've since switched to the Daily Mixes, which also seem to have the same stuff most days, and then Release Radar, which fin…
I've been using Discover Weekly for less than a year I think. But I'm a Spotify user since 2008, so it has my whole listening history for the last 8 years.
I haven't noticed repeated songs in my Discover Weekly so far, so I can't complain..
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#16I've had the same thing happen with book recommendations. While I was traveling for work more frequently, I picked my next books from the Hugo and Nebula award winning websites. I happen to enjoy space operas more than alternate history or fantasy books. After reading and rating a couple, Amazon / GoodReads' recommendations started recommending only stories that involve humanity venturing out into the void and (eventually) saving the galaxy. I happened to like the first recommendations. It saved me the trouble of looking up the next book to be devoured!
However, after six months of this, I noticed that I was stuck in a literary (can I say "literal?") reading rut that became increasingly obvious. Humanity discovers X. X becomes increasingly useful, but there's a hidden price. Y reveals the cost, and that humanity is now an underdog. Human Z, with side kicks, ventures out, and little did he know, plays an important role on the galactic stage.
Customization is nice in software. However - recommendation engines (today) seem particularly dim-witted, and result in the creation of a single-person echo chamber that becomes increasingly lonely the longer you spend interacting with it.
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#17I use Spotify's discover weekly and I'm consistently impressed by the new music that the app shares with me. Bands I've never heard of before that all fit beautifully within the type of music I enjoy. I totally disagree with the author's point.
I am always looking for Mondays because of that playlist. So definitely disagreeing with the author.
Same thing here. One of the highest points of my regular mondays.
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#18Discover Weekly in this article is a microcosm of the problems with Spotify generally.
Spotify (especially on desktop) has a LOT of issues. From poorly implemented shuffle play to random removal of features (notifications to ctrl-f to playlist organization), and a complicated by a total lack of dev communication on any platform.
I think the issue with Spotify is not that their core is bad, it's that they never manage to improve and while they act like they're listening, they're not really listening. If there was any worthy competition, I'd switch.
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#19I definitely disagree with the premise of the article. I have a playlist where I pull in my favorites from Discover Weekly, and it just turned one year old. I still consistently get great new songs to add to the playlist.
I've also gleaned some insight into my general disposition over the least year from the playlist. I can tell exactly when I was in a "mood" or a rut... When I was listening to lots of angry music, that was reflected in my suggestions and my picks. And when I was opening up and relaxing—that also shows through the playlist.
I'd say that if your taste in music has a wider range and not specific to a single genre, your Discover Weekly will be a lot more rewarding. And also, if you rotate through musical moods like seasons where some tastes come and go over the course of a month or two, your Discover Weekly will support that and help you indulge in the mood of the month.
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#20I use Spotify's discover weekly and I'm consistently impressed by the new music that the app shares with me. Bands I've never heard of before that all fit beautifully within the type of music I enjoy. I totally disagree with the author's point.
I am always looking for Mondays because of that playlist. So definitely disagreeing with the author.
By the time Monday rolls around, I've barely had enough time to explore all the bands from the previous week!