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It’s a pretty cool idea and gets to a philosophical question really quick “what do people mean when they say they like similar music?”

Era? Artist? Genre? Sound? Tempo?

Personally I spend my time finding similar-era music because I like to hear how sounds evolved.

Ideally one would like an algorithm to be able to realize,"this person prefers to explore new music from the same era," vs "that person prefers to jump around to different countries," vs "the other person prefers to remix their existing playlists," and thus come up with the optimal degree of novelty for each listener. Or at least let the user set a novelty slider to customize their own experience.

> But to me this is a feature, not a bug. I could see this or something like it opening my eyes to music I would never possibly have found on my own.

What makes it different from a big "play me a random song" button then?

They have some similarity based on the actual music.

> it seems to identify similar tempo and melodic riff

Spotify wants you to listen to the tracks that they are paid to promote.