Create few playlists and add songs you like to them and also be diligent about liking and unliking songs. These will heavily influence your recommendations and you should be able to get back on track.
Just recently they started playing the exact same ads but sometimes they have a few syllables messed up. I think I now have first-hand experience in being gaslit, it really makes you doubt your sanity if you heard the "same" ad but "wrong".
I have playlists that work as filters for me, if I'm mass copying a playlist I first put it into the filter playlist, then I press "skip duplicates" now all the songs that are not on my shit list (fiilter list) will end up at the bottom labeled "now" on "date added" then I copy those to the playlist I want to and erase them from the filter.
It allows you to block either 1. the artist or 2. the song track.
It reminds me of Cronenberg's "The Fly" where Brundle had to teach his teleporting pod to reproduce living tissue rather than interpret it.
This is what's perhaps missing from Spotify, an easy way to namespace your account activity.
Still, I think the future is in human hand crafted recommendations like Stephenson sketched out in "Fall: or Dodge in Hell".
My friends send me weird stuff pretty ooften too.
How many channels are you subbed to?
I also have youtube premium, i wonder if that affects it?
Bonus, you don't have the same recommendation issues that spotify has (I'm in the same boat with non-sensical recommendations, or the same tired songs getting recommended over and over again).
I will never subscribe even the paid experience is better.
* Album playlists, with "shuffle by album/entry"
* Disable song in album
* Tags for albums/tracks, sort by tags
* Genre block lists (they have artist block lists, let's go one step forward)
* Download n-minutes of a playlist (for when they're 16 hours long)
* Block tracks over n minutes on shuffle
<glares at The Girl Is Mine>
https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/how-to...
Just seemed like they were describing their analytics/logging/recommendation systems as "not private".
Great
Now that Pandora lets you make your own playlists, or listen to individual songs, and download for offline playback (on airplanes for example), I don't see any compelling reason to switch to Spotify these days.
For me, Spotify ended up just playing the same artist, same album even, over and over. Same problem with their Shuffle feature - I could have a playlist with 500 songs from various artists, albums, genres and more... but I'd get the same artist, same album back to back to back far too often. So often, it didn't feel random at all. Just anecdotal though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping
The best song randomizer I've seen described generates a permutation of songs, then "plots" them in n dimensional space with closeness being closeness being a weighted distance of closeness in the playlist and whatever metadata you have about them. (artist, genre, year, mood). Then you iteratively break the clumps until you can't find any or the number stops decreasing. If you still have clumps then you raise the bar for what is considered a clump and repeat until you hit zero.
Interesting stuff!
However, I've used Spotify since 2014 and still experienced the same Shuffle behavior. Strange, perhaps I'm looking for it now, and introducing some sort of bias.
It is interesting, however, that a music playlist company took so long to realize people wouldn't like their original Shuffle implementation. I don't think any device or software I used before Spotify had such a remarkably bad Shuffle experience - including the original iPods and other, much older software and devices.
There are weird pockets of the Spotify database for this (e.g. "lo-fi beats" artists that churn out hundreds of tracks with many artists) and no way to send any feedback (they shut down Line-In, their metadata feedback a few years ago). Disliking doesn't work because Spotify will only remember you don't like one of the artists, not all of them.
I use YouTube bc it autostops playing and turns phone off when I'm already sleeping. And funnily enough, ads help me start sleeping faster :D
Maybe this'll be as useful to you as it was to me.
I'm bummed because I really don't like Youtube Music.
Right click -> Go to playlist radio
That was almost a year ago and it’s still recommending ambient artists.
If she listens just two or three songs, I'll get the dreaded reaggeton song in "Discover Weekly" next monday. If she uses the account for a whole day, the playlist is ruined for me.
https://community.pandora.com/t5/Feature-Requests/User-contr...
Seriously, I REALLY want a music service which gives me control over the discovery algorithms parameters.
Just in general, I'm sooooo worn out from living in a world where nothing revolves around "super users" and everything revolves around... average decent 21st century people.
I wish they had a 'stealth' mode or at least an option to reset your tastes.
https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/how-to...
Netflix and the video streaming services are the worst here. I hate my Netflix recommendations, and can't get out of them.
Spotify's discovery tends to be pretty iffy for anything at least for me anyway, so I mostly follow labels I like on Bandcamp for discovery instead.
To fix this i started using the mediation apps that have these sorts of sounds. I also ahem downloaded a few albums i really liked
I wish there was a way to tell the algorithm to ignore a specific album, song or genre
So to over-simplify, something like instead of saying "You just listened to an RPG soundtrack, here's another RPG soundtrack!" it would say "You just listened to an RPG soundtrack, here's a symphony".
The idea is to lengthen the links of recommendations to encourage more exploration and wider discovery rather than circling the same narrow interest constantly.
I have a playlist for each genre and regularly discover new songs withing those.
If not I’d still get baby sleeping songs.
Solution: use separate streaming service for the kids! I still use Spotify for everything, but kids music happens on Amazon Music.