This has been my problem since Google All Access died. I tried YouTube music out but it seems to be incapable segregating my videos I want to watch and the music I want to listen to, making both products worse. I tried Pandora which has the best “radio” but absolutely nothing natively supports it. As an android user I’m not using Apple Music so I’m stuck with Spotify
Spotify seems to care so much about curated playlists. They want you to see popular ones, they want you to see which ones your friends made, they want your household on one plan so you can “jam” together and I don’t give a shit. My music tastes are not super contemporary and not very popular. I’m fine with that. However because I don’t listen to playlists every station I listen to turns into the same songs in half an hour. No matter what I listen to Spotify seems to think that Rich Girl by Hall and Oates (a song I used to like quite a bit!) is a perfect follow up. Jimmy Buffet, Jamiroquai, Doja Cat, Cake, the Challengers soundtrack, a playlist of specifically women singers from the 90s. All have had fucking Hall and Oates pop up on autoplay
They very clearly are pushing you to use their social media features to get variety and it sucks
I had the “Hall and Oates” problem with Apple Music except instead of reverting to songs I had previously played a lot it reverts to songs they are trying to push. In my case it seemed like every playlist turned into hip hop in about 3 songs. Play Snoop Dogg? Turns into hip hop. Play Hans Zimmer, believe it or not - also hip hop.
This has been my problem since Google All Access died. I tried YouTube music out but it seems to be incapable segregating my videos I want to watch and the music I want to listen to, making both products worse. I tried Pandora which has the best “radio” but absolutely nothing natively supports it. As an android user I’m not using Apple Music so I’m stuck with Spotify
Spotify seems to care so much about curated playlists. They want you to see popular ones, they want you to see which ones your friends made, they want your household on one plan so you can “jam” together and I don’t give a shit. My music tastes are not super contemporary and not very popular. I’m fine with that. However because I don’t listen to playlists every station I listen to turns into the same songs in half an hour. No matter what I listen to Spotify seems to think that Rich Girl by Hall and Oates (a song I used to like quite a bit!) is a perfect follow up. Jimmy Buffet, Jamiroquai, Doja Cat, Cake, the Challengers soundtrack, a playlist of specifically women singers from the 90s. All have had fucking Hall and Oates pop up on autoplay
They very clearly are pushing you to use their social media features to get variety and it sucks
I had the “Hall and Oates” problem with Apple Music except instead of reverting to songs I had previously played a lot it reverts to songs they are trying to push. In my case it seemed like every playlist turned into hip hop in about 3 songs. Play Snoop Dogg? Turns into hip hop. Play Hans Zimmer, believe it or not - also hip hop.