Has popular sentiment turned against Spotify’s algorithms? I thought their recommendation system was their most-respected feature – in my own experience at least, Discover Weekly continues to be Spotify’s moat.
That's more than can be said for Tidal. My recommendation playlists generally contain tracks and artists I already listen to (sometimes from completely unrelated genres), sprinkled with what seems to be random tracks from the "more like this" section of said artists.
Still not enough to compensate for the shit stream quality and ever increasing price of Spotify though...
What drives me absolutely bonkers is the number of foreign language songs in Spotify's recommendation engine for me. No matter how many times I say "never play this song again" to every foreign language song, give it about 5-10 more songs and it'll play another one.
I've never knowingly listened to a foreign language song