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Issues Finding New Songs - Discover, Daily Mix, Song Radio, etc

Issues Finding New Songs - Discover, Daily Mix, Song Radio, etc

Spotify should tailor to specific subgenres and specific tastes, not just what's popular or what is new.


Discover and Daily Mixes are filled with songs based purely on popularity, it is not properly tailored to specific taste, only the overall genre. For instance, I like hip hop that has a lot of singing like blackbear, lil uzi vert, juice wrld, Yung Pinch, Post Malone, Trippie Redd, Nav, etc, need I go on? This should be a very easy Mix to make based on that data, take those 7 artists I just listed and show me more that are like them. Well guess again, all of my Discover Playlists and Daily Mixes are just filled with trap or variants of hip-hop that I'm not interested in. If I play a particular song, Spotify's algorithm should play a song that is actually similar, not just a song that other users like. 


Song Radio is filled with songs that are already in my Liked Songs or songs that are already in my other playlists or like the above problem, just popular songs, it has no bearing on the "vibe" or subgenre that I'm going for. So what is the point of song radio? It's a useless feature.

The algorithm is inferior to Googles. When I use my Google Home and ask it to play a particular song, after that song has finished it continues to play songs that are actually similar and songs that I haven't heard before.

 

The final problem I've been having is with adding songs to playlists on Windows 10. on Android there's no problem. On desktop however is another story. I organize my Playlists by Recent, when I got to add songs to a playlist, I expect the drop down menu to also display in order of Recent, well it doesn't, it's in a complete arbitrary order. When I open this drop down menu, the first 5 playlists the menu displays are all playlists I listen to on the rare occasion, why isn't my most recent or most played playlist listed at the top? It is infuriating and nonsensical.

 

I intend to move onto YouTube music when I get around to transferring playlists. 

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Few other additions I forgot to mention:

 

I've been trying out Discover Weekly and Daily Mixes again to confirm whether I'm tripping or not. As expected, Daily Mixes are just filled with songs that I already have in playlists, is this intended? 


Discover Weekly is always various genres of music that don't mesh well. I listen to a lot of different genres; pop, rap, punk, metal, etc. I don't want to listen to all of those genres in one playlist, is there a Discover Weekly or another feature for finding new music that is genre based?

 

Lately, I've been listening to "fantasy music" and OST while I play this dungeon crawler on Steam. Now Spotify won't show me anything else. I want to find new pop and rap that is similar to the songs that I like, not just what's New or what's Popular, how tf do I do that?

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