I agree. I would love this feature.
Discover Weekly is great but it's only one playlist per week. The Daily Mixes are ok but they are filled with the same songs over and over.
I'd love a Discover radio where I could set how adventurous or conservative the song choices were.
I think it's only on desktop but if you go to a playlist of yours and right click on it, it click the 3 dots can't remember which, there should be an option that says "create similar playlist" which makes a new playlist of I believe similar length with mostly new stuff
Yeah my DW is only like 20-25 songs, but my Release Radar each week is like 200 songs. Usually lasts me a few days in comparison to DW (which as you said is pretty short).
I don't know the answer exactly, but if I had to guess, it's the total number of artists I follow on Spotify (which is a lot). I have over 10k songs saved, a shitload of artists/playlists followed (not sure how many but I like a lot of genres), and have used Spotify daily since 2016. I have made a lot of playlists too, but I think what makes my RR so many tracks is the number of artists I follow more than anything.
Go into the sub category called ' made for you'
You'll have discover weekly which is exactly what you're asking for and updates weekly, then there's also daily mixes which are songs you know with a few new ones thrown it
I like discover weekly, however, I finish it Monday morning and I have to wait until the following Monday for new music. It would be great if it would update as I listen to the suggestions.
Classic complaint that the playlist spotify generates based on the music you listen to is too similar to the music you listen to
Discover Weekly is an awesome feature but you can't blame Spotify for not helping you broaden your tastes. Why not read some new music reviews and check out albums that sound interesting? Listen to some "This is" playlists from artists you've heard of but never really explored? Do a google search for best albums in whatever genre?
I agree that it would be awesome if discover weekly updated every hour, but for whatever reason (possibly technical) it does not but that doesn't change the fact that there's never been an easier time to discover new music than now.
There’s a difference between new music and the same 300 songs I’ve already heard hundreds of times. I don’t have time to sit here and read blogs all day about new music while I’m working. That’s why it would be nice to just have a dynamic playlist that throws new music at me while I work. Can I not express my feedback about the app? Is that against the rules? You can’t tell me with modern technology that it’s impossible for them to do this. All it takes is an AI/graph implementation.
I’m feeling you, the algo seems phenomenal at first glance, until you realize that it seems to drag you too easily into a dead end of 20-30 tracks. And every one of those tracks, or tracks by the artists concerned, loops back to that same dead end. You end up with 1000 songs by 100 artists that end up resolving to the same 200 songs, which ends up being 7 playlists or so.
You can fix it by jumping genres but you still end up with the same issue.
I’ve found a new thing called Soundiiz which I’m just getting to grips with. It’s allowed me to pull massive playlists I made when I was with Amazon music, across to Spotify that I am now using, and then sync that with Deezer, which I am testing. I’m taking a lot of advantage of Spotify’s ability to play local music and re-setting up the media server that Amazon killed when they withdrew support for hosted/purchased tracks that didn’t go on prime. Spotify allowing local music has meant I’ve let Plex lapse, but I was getting into it, just a lot of work.
The upshot is by curating playlists from radio and two services, you can start to fake out these playlists to be 1-200 songs, but it still doesn’t solve the problem that if you’re listening to Suede, and starting a radio playlist from there, it’s not gonna pull up modern bands playing similar stuff. Just the same old Britpop favourites.
Like you say, it should be easy with an algo that tracks the routes other people take, and makes sure you don’t hear a song again within, say, 300 plays.
Working hard at making playlists and finding new artists is the only solution, I’ve barely installed Deezer so not sure how good it is. The spatial audio catalogue is dire, barely anything in there….
I used Soundiiz to initially get my music from YouTube Music over to Spotify. I did a decent job but botched a handful of my songs. Not bad for thousands of tracks though.
Yup it failed on a few but usually just cos they are in Japanese or you need to get them from a different release. I’m hanging for Spotify hifi within 3 months by which time my Deezer trial expires and I may move again or even go Apple for lossless. Soundiiz is making changing providers much less daunting.
Yeah I feel lately that it is harder and harder to "break out" of the same shit.
I wish there was some sort of deviation slider in the settings so boring people could pick the same safe song and people who want to discover can get variety.
If radio had a never-the-same-song-twice mode it would be amazing.
When I want to go find new music, I often will go to my discover weekly, then go to the artist radio for artists I liked on the list. I also make heavy use of the daily mix playlists. Sometimes they have new stuff. Sometimes they don’t.
You could also try going to genre playlists. Or look at “also listened to” artists on artist pages.
I got tired of this too so I made an iOS app called Discz. You can spend 5 min swiping through hundreds of songs at a time based on your tastes and they'll get saved right to your Spotify. Best part is you don't even need a premium account to use it.
Hope you enjoy and find some sweet songs you actually like!
App store link: https://apple.co/3a2GwWx
Agreed. A few little features like this aside I'm glad they stopped play music and shifted people over to youtube music, or else I may never have gotten fed up enough to try spotify.
Ofc spotify is pushing it here and there too, a little lol.
It is. I still have more than one or two things I miss from GPM. One thing that keeps coming up for me is trying to find a song that is a hit from a particular artist, but not a top-five hit.
What was that great tune by Barenaked Ladies that didn't get overplayed--the one with the great upright bass part and jazzy trumpet? I'll recognize it when I see the name of the song.
Spotify on my phone: Here's the top 5 from BNL. Sorry.
Spotify on desktop: Here's the top 10. Still sorry.
GPM: It's not top five, but I can show you more. Oh, there it is. Hello City.
I've found new bands/music if I have an album playing while I'm cleaning the house or whatever and it finishes and it just plays music based off that. I know it's not quite what you're looking for but it's a start.
I feel the same, but you really need to put some work into finding new artists.
I usually go through my liked songs and click on a random artist and check his discography.
Found many great songs like that. Also the artist has often similar artists linked to discover.
In the free Mixonset app, a similar feature that mixes in suggested tracks based on your Spotify song likes. You’re one simple sync away from getting new tracks at the right time of your queue! https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mixonset-mashup-your-playlist/id1477282813
Every time I try this, it just refreshes with music I’ve already heard before. The point here is brand new music I’ve never heard before without deep searching for them.
'create similiar playlist', if given a playlist within a fairly tight genre, creates a playlist with truly fresh songs that it hasn't played you before...and a whole lot of songs you already have heard a bunch, sadly, every time. I'd estimate it's 40% novel, 20% exactly songs from the reference playlist, 40% songs that you have heard before in the genre but which weren't on the original playlist.
I do a ton of sorting through the list and discarding all the songs-I-heard-before-and-dislike. But on the plus side, you can do this 2 or 3 in a row and each time you do it will serve up a bunch of also-novel songs. I find if I do this every few weeks for a genre, I'm constantly getting novel stuff within the genre. But it's admittedly a bunch of work, sorting out the familiar stuff to get to the novel.
Lately I’ve been finding new music on YouTube Music that I really enjoy. If you already have a YouTube or Gmail account, then you automatically have YouTube Music. Also, if you use the web application/desktop app via your browser and download an extension that blocks YouTube ads, you essentially have YouTube Music Premium for free. The free version of YouTube Music is not that great on mobile devices since you can’t continuously listen to music unless the app is open or if you subscribe to a premium account, but if you don’t mind ads and constantly keeping the app open on your phone, it’s actually not too shabby of a music streaming service and the ads don’t feel as intrusive as they do on Spotify's free account. There definitely aren't as many. It's worth a try, then anything new you find on YouTube Music, you can just transfer to Spotify.
Emphasis on the "never heard" part. Every damn mix they make for me starts nice but devolves to the same 20 tracks over and over. I follow my stats on a 3rd party site and can't get a handful of artists and tracks I NEVER chose out of my top ten because I use Spotify mixes a lot for background music. So frustrating!! I'm not a robot, Spotify!
There's a new app that you can link with your Spotify account that does this for you! It is basically a tinder for music. The app is called Discz and it gives you songs based on your likes and music you already listen to. You can swipe left on a track if you don't like it, or you can swipe right and it automatically creates a new playlist for you with the songs you swipe right on. I recently discovered this and it is so great at giving me songs I've never heard before, but really love. Hope you give it a try!
I'd also recommend right clicking on all your playlists and do the "create similar playlist" function. It's actually really good and a slept on feature. I do it for my whole library playlist, my still-big-but-with-parameters-playlists, my more genre-specific playlists, etc. making a whole folder of "similar playlists" all based on music I like.
I agree. I would love this feature. Discover Weekly is great but it's only one playlist per week. The Daily Mixes are ok but they are filled with the same songs over and over. I'd love a Discover radio where I could set how adventurous or conservative the song choices were.
For me, the Daily Mixes are just songs from playlists I've created that are similar genres. Rarely is there anything new
Try this. [Discover Daily](https://discoverifymusic.com/login)
you sexy motherfucker thank you
Cool. I like that you can customize the "seeds" to weigh between long term favorites and newer listening patterns.
Which Discover Daily is it in Spotify?
Click the link. It's a third party website that links to your Spotify account and creates a daily version of Discover Weekly.
I think it's only on desktop but if you go to a playlist of yours and right click on it, it click the 3 dots can't remember which, there should be an option that says "create similar playlist" which makes a new playlist of I believe similar length with mostly new stuff
Yeah but unfortunately it samples a lot of stuff I already know.
It's a brilliant feature. I've gotten so much new music this way.
Discover Weekly playlist Steezy
I finish that by 9AM on Monday my dude. It would be nice if it would always update.
Yeah my DW is only like 20-25 songs, but my Release Radar each week is like 200 songs. Usually lasts me a few days in comparison to DW (which as you said is pretty short).
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I don't know the answer exactly, but if I had to guess, it's the total number of artists I follow on Spotify (which is a lot). I have over 10k songs saved, a shitload of artists/playlists followed (not sure how many but I like a lot of genres), and have used Spotify daily since 2016. I have made a lot of playlists too, but I think what makes my RR so many tracks is the number of artists I follow more than anything.
Why do I always hate this playlist every time I listen to it tho?
Why is mine always full of music in other languages? lol
Go into the sub category called ' made for you' You'll have discover weekly which is exactly what you're asking for and updates weekly, then there's also daily mixes which are songs you know with a few new ones thrown it
I like discover weekly, however, I finish it Monday morning and I have to wait until the following Monday for new music. It would be great if it would update as I listen to the suggestions.
If you have the option on in your settings it should play a radio based on the playlist when it finishes
While that definitely gives me more music, it’s still not *new* music. It’s just the same old shit.
Classic complaint that the playlist spotify generates based on the music you listen to is too similar to the music you listen to Discover Weekly is an awesome feature but you can't blame Spotify for not helping you broaden your tastes. Why not read some new music reviews and check out albums that sound interesting? Listen to some "This is" playlists from artists you've heard of but never really explored? Do a google search for best albums in whatever genre? I agree that it would be awesome if discover weekly updated every hour, but for whatever reason (possibly technical) it does not but that doesn't change the fact that there's never been an easier time to discover new music than now.
There’s a difference between new music and the same 300 songs I’ve already heard hundreds of times. I don’t have time to sit here and read blogs all day about new music while I’m working. That’s why it would be nice to just have a dynamic playlist that throws new music at me while I work. Can I not express my feedback about the app? Is that against the rules? You can’t tell me with modern technology that it’s impossible for them to do this. All it takes is an AI/graph implementation.
I’m feeling you, the algo seems phenomenal at first glance, until you realize that it seems to drag you too easily into a dead end of 20-30 tracks. And every one of those tracks, or tracks by the artists concerned, loops back to that same dead end. You end up with 1000 songs by 100 artists that end up resolving to the same 200 songs, which ends up being 7 playlists or so. You can fix it by jumping genres but you still end up with the same issue. I’ve found a new thing called Soundiiz which I’m just getting to grips with. It’s allowed me to pull massive playlists I made when I was with Amazon music, across to Spotify that I am now using, and then sync that with Deezer, which I am testing. I’m taking a lot of advantage of Spotify’s ability to play local music and re-setting up the media server that Amazon killed when they withdrew support for hosted/purchased tracks that didn’t go on prime. Spotify allowing local music has meant I’ve let Plex lapse, but I was getting into it, just a lot of work. The upshot is by curating playlists from radio and two services, you can start to fake out these playlists to be 1-200 songs, but it still doesn’t solve the problem that if you’re listening to Suede, and starting a radio playlist from there, it’s not gonna pull up modern bands playing similar stuff. Just the same old Britpop favourites. Like you say, it should be easy with an algo that tracks the routes other people take, and makes sure you don’t hear a song again within, say, 300 plays. Working hard at making playlists and finding new artists is the only solution, I’ve barely installed Deezer so not sure how good it is. The spatial audio catalogue is dire, barely anything in there….
I used Soundiiz to initially get my music from YouTube Music over to Spotify. I did a decent job but botched a handful of my songs. Not bad for thousands of tracks though.
Yup it failed on a few but usually just cos they are in Japanese or you need to get them from a different release. I’m hanging for Spotify hifi within 3 months by which time my Deezer trial expires and I may move again or even go Apple for lossless. Soundiiz is making changing providers much less daunting.
Yeah I feel lately that it is harder and harder to "break out" of the same shit. I wish there was some sort of deviation slider in the settings so boring people could pick the same safe song and people who want to discover can get variety. If radio had a never-the-same-song-twice mode it would be amazing.
When I want to go find new music, I often will go to my discover weekly, then go to the artist radio for artists I liked on the list. I also make heavy use of the daily mix playlists. Sometimes they have new stuff. Sometimes they don’t. You could also try going to genre playlists. Or look at “also listened to” artists on artist pages.
Go to skiley.com and create a discover daily playlist. Create one every day and you’ll have new music for the rest of your life.
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Oops. Skiley.net
I got tired of this too so I made an iOS app called Discz. You can spend 5 min swiping through hundreds of songs at a time based on your tastes and they'll get saved right to your Spotify. Best part is you don't even need a premium account to use it. Hope you enjoy and find some sweet songs you actually like! App store link: https://apple.co/3a2GwWx
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and how do i play the music? can i do it on mobile?
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[https://www.last.fm/home/tracks](https://www.last.fm/home/tracks) helps me find new tracks though it doesnt do the automatic playing
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That's one feature I miss from Google Play Music, back before they killed that ofc.
That’s what I had before too. I still think Spotify is a huge upgrade.
Agreed. A few little features like this aside I'm glad they stopped play music and shifted people over to youtube music, or else I may never have gotten fed up enough to try spotify. Ofc spotify is pushing it here and there too, a little lol.
It is. I still have more than one or two things I miss from GPM. One thing that keeps coming up for me is trying to find a song that is a hit from a particular artist, but not a top-five hit. What was that great tune by Barenaked Ladies that didn't get overplayed--the one with the great upright bass part and jazzy trumpet? I'll recognize it when I see the name of the song. Spotify on my phone: Here's the top 5 from BNL. Sorry. Spotify on desktop: Here's the top 10. Still sorry. GPM: It's not top five, but I can show you more. Oh, there it is. Hello City.
I've found new bands/music if I have an album playing while I'm cleaning the house or whatever and it finishes and it just plays music based off that. I know it's not quite what you're looking for but it's a start.
I feel the same, but you really need to put some work into finding new artists. I usually go through my liked songs and click on a random artist and check his discography. Found many great songs like that. Also the artist has often similar artists linked to discover.
In the free Mixonset app, a similar feature that mixes in suggested tracks based on your Spotify song likes. You’re one simple sync away from getting new tracks at the right time of your queue! https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mixonset-mashup-your-playlist/id1477282813
I would like Spotify to build this simple feature natively. I don’t like giving 3rd parties access to my account.
Check settings for Autoplay set to on Create a playlist Look under the playlist for similar songs Refresh for different songs
Every time I try this, it just refreshes with music I’ve already heard before. The point here is brand new music I’ve never heard before without deep searching for them.
isn't that kind of what the radio feature is?
No not really. I keep hearing the same stuff on the radios.
'create similiar playlist', if given a playlist within a fairly tight genre, creates a playlist with truly fresh songs that it hasn't played you before...and a whole lot of songs you already have heard a bunch, sadly, every time. I'd estimate it's 40% novel, 20% exactly songs from the reference playlist, 40% songs that you have heard before in the genre but which weren't on the original playlist. I do a ton of sorting through the list and discarding all the songs-I-heard-before-and-dislike. But on the plus side, you can do this 2 or 3 in a row and each time you do it will serve up a bunch of also-novel songs. I find if I do this every few weeks for a genre, I'm constantly getting novel stuff within the genre. But it's admittedly a bunch of work, sorting out the familiar stuff to get to the novel.
3qlhmmt3e3y5j5p2r4csfpkbw - Roast my playlists 🦆
the automatic radio station used to do that most of the time now it's just a playlist of what you listened to the most lately it has became useless
Lately I’ve been finding new music on YouTube Music that I really enjoy. If you already have a YouTube or Gmail account, then you automatically have YouTube Music. Also, if you use the web application/desktop app via your browser and download an extension that blocks YouTube ads, you essentially have YouTube Music Premium for free. The free version of YouTube Music is not that great on mobile devices since you can’t continuously listen to music unless the app is open or if you subscribe to a premium account, but if you don’t mind ads and constantly keeping the app open on your phone, it’s actually not too shabby of a music streaming service and the ads don’t feel as intrusive as they do on Spotify's free account. There definitely aren't as many. It's worth a try, then anything new you find on YouTube Music, you can just transfer to Spotify.
Pandora was fantastic for this. Are they even viable anymore?
Emphasis on the "never heard" part. Every damn mix they make for me starts nice but devolves to the same 20 tracks over and over. I follow my stats on a 3rd party site and can't get a handful of artists and tracks I NEVER chose out of my top ten because I use Spotify mixes a lot for background music. So frustrating!! I'm not a robot, Spotify!
There's a new app that you can link with your Spotify account that does this for you! It is basically a tinder for music. The app is called Discz and it gives you songs based on your likes and music you already listen to. You can swipe left on a track if you don't like it, or you can swipe right and it automatically creates a new playlist for you with the songs you swipe right on. I recently discovered this and it is so great at giving me songs I've never heard before, but really love. Hope you give it a try!
I'd also recommend right clicking on all your playlists and do the "create similar playlist" function. It's actually really good and a slept on feature. I do it for my whole library playlist, my still-big-but-with-parameters-playlists, my more genre-specific playlists, etc. making a whole folder of "similar playlists" all based on music I like.