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I've had Spotify for 5 years or so, and mostly used it to look up songs I already liked, and to create playlists to listen to while studying/working/programming. It was already pretty awesome for that. Then I started checking out the "Related Artist" section, and started discovering new music after such a hiatus of music discovery since my younger years.

But where Spotify has really just excelled, and dare I say changed the way I listen to music, is their newer ways of discovering music. Now I can make a playlist with all of my favorites, and then just check out the "Recommended Songs" section to find new favorites. And now I start most work weeks off listening to the "Discover Weekly" playlist and drag the songs I like over to my playlists. The amount of new music I've discovered hasn't been this volume since middle school.

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Yeah I agree that Spotify is the best in the game right now. Discover weekly has been spot on consistently since it was released but for me 30 tracks is barely enough. I've been using turntable inspired https://www.jqbx.fm for a little while. The social part of it gives it the extra push of randomness I need to discover music I wouldn't have stumbled on otherwise.

Thank you for mentioning JQBX!

Try right clicking a playlist you like, and select "Make Similar Playlist" for a shortcut. Loved this feature when I found it.

Wow, didn't know about that feature. Thanks for mentioning!

I liked the "radio" and daily mix things at first, but they often repeat the same songs and haven't really gotten me anything new for a while. They generate a new one if I go to a completely different genre, but it doesn't seem to evolve over time.

Daily Mix is intended to work this way. It's ought to give you songs that you already know and like, not the new ones.

I'm finding that even discover weekly is giving me songs that I've already listened to a lot. I wish there was something I could do to tell it to stop that.

Maybe there just aren't many songs out there that I truly like, but every month or so I do still stumble on a couple that are truly awesome. Does anyone have any suggestions on a similar service that could suggest more songs to me in a better way?

Yeah, indeed, sometimes they seem to shove some bands down the throats. At least in the radio mode you can use the "thumb down", and I hope they're checking which songs I keep skipping. But, for the best results: try listening to other people Discover Weekly playlists. I got few folks on my list with a similar taste, so I won't hear anything offending on their Weeklies, yet the lists are quite often totally different.

interesting, but then the challenge becomes finding people who have similar tastes to me :\

I don’t want to start a which is better war but just want to talk about this discovery thread. My favorite thing about using Apple Music has been how much incredible music I have discovered through their playlists and through Beats One especially. I listen to pretty much any genre now and know deeply about the artists and the songs and their purpose. It’s just so incredible. This is a new era of music.

Google music's radio features (create a radio station from a playlist, song, artist, etc) along with recommendations have had a similar effect for me. I discover new music that I really enjoy all the time.

I do eagerly await the discover playlist, but for me personally the quality is inconsistent at best. One week it will be great and have 10 songs that I keep, the next it will be full of crap. I guess I have weird enough taste that Spotify has a hard time satisfying it. It's still the best I've found, and beats Pandora by a big margin. Does anyone else have similar experiences?

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