>I strongly disagree. Spotify has dramatically increased the variety of music that I listen to and introduced me to lost of tiny artists with great music.
This has been my experience as well.
This has been my experience as well.
I'm a big fan of the recommendation algorithms, so I set up a super basic site to wrap the Spotify API and let anyone get recommendations based on a single song link, rather than waiting for the Discover Weekly recs which are based off the blend of everything you listen to.
Warning: the site is really basic right now
The /recommend API I wrapped for the site is similar, in that I let it spit out 12 "similar" songs, but I'll probably only like one or two songs, but you can also re-submit to shuffle the recommendations. The site is definitely more for active discovery than passively listening. I made the site because:
1. I wanted to more actively discover songs
2. I'm a big Spotify fan and was curious about the guts of the recommendations algorithm
3. I had never deployed an actual site (I exclusively do backend programming at work) so it was good learning experience about things like setting up a little static site