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I've tried many of their playlists. I've found some that are very good and was thrilled to find them, however the content was easy to exhaust and I ended up picking apart those playlists for new artists. Back to square 1 if you will.

I know it sounds like whining, but I really think the 'killer app' of music will be something that can effortlessly pick out the unknown gems from the ocean of new music. I'm continually surprised about the quality of new music but I don't like to have to dig around for it my self.

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The key for me was to find interesting people to follow on Spotify. There are a lot of folks who seem to do music discovery as a full-time gig. Find/follow enough of those people and your hunger will be satiated.

Though, I wish there were better ways to discover people to follow, it's fairly manual now and much of it goes on outside of Spotify.

I can't help but feel that you're doing it wrong?

Spotify playlists are beautiful because you subscribe to it. The playlists are updated and curated continuously. This is true of the Spotify-published playlists and those of musicians, celebrities, etc.

Maybe I'm just subscribed to the wrong ones, but the Spotify playlists I'm subscribed to don't update that often, and they aren't that long. If I listen for hours a day, there's no way the Spotify playlists will keep up with providing new music. Pandora is better in that respect but worse in almost all others, unfortunately.

Sure, i know what you're saying. The playlists I do subscribe to are indeed updated continuously. However updates are relatively minor. A few songs from artists already on the list, maybe one or two totally new-to-me artists every other week. I'm not saying it's nothing but I want more.

Spotify boasts a gigantic library, I cant imagine I've heard everything good (objectively) already. There has to be thousands of hours of material that I simply can't find that I'd otherwise love to hear.

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