I always thought music streaming services craft the song radio playlists carefully using algorithms that take song genre, beat and melody patterns, artist relations etc into consideration.
Well color me surpised when I quickly downloaded the song radio playlist of “Tunak Tunak Tun” by Daler Mehndi for a car trip and played it in the car.
The first song was ofc said indie indian pop song. The second one I was like, ok, a little different genre but ok??? (PPAP - Pen Pinapple Apple Pen).
By the third one I was confused.
First “take on me” starts, I turn it up because what the heck, doesn’t fit the theme at all but good song anyway, and then a twelve-year-old starts ear-raping me about mining minecraft diamonds:
It seems I was the last human to figure out those streaming services base the song radios on what other people group the song into playlists, not any method of paragraph one.
This was confirmed by the rest of the playlist makeup:
(Two other songs by Daler Mehndi)
Tri Ploski
Two songs with pewdipie
Both the russian and soviet national anthems (by the same artist, listed seperately)
7th element (twice, once english, once russian)
Axel F
The Angry Birds theme
Multiple common Youtube soundtracks
Etc, you get the picture.
This is when I understood that most Tidal listeners who have added this song to a playlist, have it in their meme playlist.
Go figure…
As a symphonic metal addict, this shit is the bane of my ears.
Every streaming service I’ve tried, one of two things happens: I input a solid specimen to seed a playlist and it either regurgitates the same 4 or so most popular symphonic metal artists; or it just builds a playlist with EVERY type of metal and we’re back to howler monkeys hitting a drum set with a guitar.
If you ever find something like what you described in your opening paragraph, PLEASE send me a PM or something lol.
Being a fan of a metal subgenre is annoying as hell. I’ll use deathcore as a seed and then it puts in Metallica. It’s so irritating
I only discovered symphonic metal when a friend introduced me to Exit Eden. Fell in love, and have been so disappointed since. It’s incredibly hard to find anything without searching for each individual song, which doesn’t work when you don’t know the genre well enough. Any recommendations are really appreciated.
Mentioned a few solid ones in another thread. Ignore the Pelican and Russian Circles (those are more ambient rock) but the rest should be good:
You rock! Thanks!
