I'm feeding off the weekly recommendations that are filled with the 6-8 genres I like. I don't get any mainstream garbage in my recommendations, and am finding New Songs every week.

I bet those articles come from the 3 big Labels

[–] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I used to like some of the old bittorrent clients seeing what other users were seeding. You would see someone with a lot of known killer music and something you had never heard of. It was a great way of finding new music.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

that was limewire and kazaa, also cheers for bringing back a memory that I didn't know I had lol

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

For me the recommendations have been circling the drain for a while. It's just the same songs over and over again, and it seems to have decided that I only like ambient electronic music and indie pop, both of which I actually find quite boring. No matter what I do, and no matter how much I like songs in other genres, that's what it serves me, along with the occasional '80s hit because it has figured out I'm old. It was good for a few years but then seemed to get stuck in a rut.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

So you have

Discover Weekly

and

Release Radar

and

daylist which generates vibe based playlists every 4 hours

and

An endless search of all songs and artists and playlists matching any number of random playlists featuring random songs across all genres

limited to your imagination

and going back to the beginning of recorded music

and then at the bottom of those playlists you have recommended songs based on the playlist

then if you click on any of those songs you get more songs by that artist

then if you click smart shuffle it'll inject songs related into the playlist

It's kinda hard for me to sympathise but I have heard this complaint a few times now

For me the biggest complaint against spotify I have is payola

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

More or less same, or random bands with the same name, I mostly use bandcamp for discovery these days, for now it's still great being able to follow small labels, bands and user tags.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been very cautious over all the years that ive been using it. My rule is to only like what I wouldn't mind listening daily to, and do playlists for all the other stuff that I don't want to get bombarded with.

It has worked out for me.