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It's a golden age for music. More than half of Spotify payouts go to non-agency talent, IE small musicians. It's a great discovery mechanism.

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sure... until one realizes one has gotta pay the ripper if they ever wanna get recommended by "the" algorithm of spotify

"the algorithm" has got to be a tough one though. You can't recommend very many bad fits for the user before they will stop using it, and unknown/lesser known songs are a huge gamble.

I badly want an algorithm that I can say, "Find me artists that sounds like <example-song> that have less than 1,000 subcribers (or whatever metric)" but I can understand why they don't do that (because there are very, very few people like me out there). It sucks.

I'm afraid you'd be dissapointed if you got what you wanted, because it'd likely be AI-generated money-laundering-core.

I don't know if they still have it, but the AI playlist builder on Spotify could do stuff like that. If you play a regular playlist on Spotify called Reggae or Rare Reggae or obscure Reggae you can bet your life it has a few Bob Marley tracks on it. The AI thingummy was able to restrict to less popular artists only.

It's the same story on every platform. No one is owed attention. Building an audience is a grind.

"the" algorithm is constantly giving me new music from small artists. If all you hear is top 40 hits, that's on you.

As opposed to what? Pay the record companies, or, most likely, never even to be discovered by them?

The recommendation algorithm works fine for me. There should be some reset button though or some other levers though.

If you let someone else choose songs or choose song others like too for a party it gets messed up.

Who cares about the Spotify algorithm? Make your own algorithm; send links to your music on Spotify.

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