Personally, I think I’m pretty adventurous. I love music and my library has thousands of artists across dozens of genres like classic rock, new wave, Motown, smooth jazz, shoegaze, drum & bass, prog rock, hip hop, and more. Hitting ‘shuffle all’ is a recipe for absolute chaos.
I love finding new artists and connections between them (solo projects, supergroups, samples, etc), and every 5-10 years I discover a whole new genre and enjoy going down the rabbit hole. I have all-time favourites, but listening to the same thing for too long drives me crazy.
By contrast, my wife only ever really listens to 2 or 3 different artists and somehow never gets bored of listening to the same few albums on repeat for literal years.
Where do others fall on that spectrum? Do you feel the need to constantly seek out new music, or are you the kind of person who prefers settling into a groove long-term?
i want to find new music, but idk how so i settle onto a few albums and playlists for my locally saved music. these days i tend to listen to the radio more, but even then it’s not that diverse and i don’t/can’t find them again even if i hear something i enjoy from the radio.
I hate Spotify for many reasons and don’t use it any more, but one thing I found it did very well was recommending new music based on existing tastes. Their daily mix and discovery playlists could be a little hit and miss, but there were always at least a handful of great tracks that were new to me.
That’s the benefit of having so many subscribers I suppose - the data pool that drives their recommendation engine is unfathomably massive.
How long have you not used Spotify any longer? Because I would have agreed with your assessment in the past, but I gave up two years ago because new suggestions sounded more like promoted music than anything related to my taste.
Yeah that’s fair - it’s been a few years now and I’ve seen others say similar things, not to mention the rise of AI generated music which Spotify is apparently all too happy to push.
Why yes of course they would push it - they generate it themselves and pay themselves generously!
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The various channels are human-curated and occasionally live dj-ed. I’ve found several new artists I like just by listening for awhile and picking out things that strike me.