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A music experience where you listen to music industry's preferences instead? That's a step down, even from not curating your spotify preferences at all.

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Spotify announced last month that the "music industry" can start paying to put specific songs into people's recommendations.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-a...

What makes you think spotify isn’t injecting the music industry’s preferences into your playlist? But anyway there are plenty of radio stations that still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.

> still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.

Sure, and that's what Spotify IS doing, only they can do it for literally any song/artist/genre, instead of just the mainstream ones. If the RIAA wants to give me some melancholy lofi during my melancholy lofi listening, I don't really mind. I don't have to sit through an Imagine Dragons song, which is the radio alternative

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