Why does Spotify always play the same music?

[Barry Admin]

God damn, Complete chronological Miles Davis playlist.

[Barry Admin]

@NoSleep You seen this?!

[Kankurette]

Those This Is Whoever playlists are pretty good if you're curious about an artist and want a general overview. I had a World Party one on after Karl Wallinger died.

[kngen]

If I play my 'Liked Songs' (of which there are about 1,500) for around an hour, Spotify will, unfailingly, play GG Allin's Bite It You Scum at least once. It's very odd, and I suspect there may be some background tampering by a bored coder for it to come up so often. It's rarely unwelcome though. One of the silly sod's best songs, for sure.

[Kankurette]

Finetime by Cast is the one I always get if I play something indie from the '90s.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Finetime by Cast is the one I always get if I play something indie from the '90s.

Hard to imagine a greater argument against Spotify than that.

[Kankurette]

I have Finetime on my main playlist tbf. If I play metal I get Dragula.

[WhoMe]

If it's not your sole source of music Spotify is perfectly fine I think. It can box you in if you let it. I know a lot of artists think it's the death of the industry and that but, half the time, I'm aware of them because of Spotify in the first place. For me it's essentially a shop window, I've bought records and gig tickets off the back of it. Gonna go and see a Mongolian Folk/Jazz musician called Enji in May, would've probably never heard of her outside of the Spotify recommendation.

[Mr_Simnock]

'algorithms' give you more of the same, it's all they can ever do

[dontpaintyourteeth]

I do find it a bit vexing when people act like the only way they can access music is on Spotify, if I'm honest

[madhair60]

i respect the hell out of you for that

[Mr_Simnock]

I do find it a bit vexing when people act like the only way they can access music is on Spotify, if I'm honest

I don't think anyone does, could you give an example?

[madhair60]

i do

[dontpaintyourteeth]

I don't think anyone does, could you give an example?

Yes, whenever anything is removed from spotify people on lastfm usually cry about not being to listen to it anymore. However I've had the sarcy madhair reply already so I assume it's just me that has noticed this, which is fine.

[Kankurette]

It's not like I go to festivals much these days.

[madhair60]

honestly dpyt that "respect" post was meant to go in an entirely different thread, but i stand by it

[NoSleep]

@NoSleep You seen this?!

No I hadn't (not really a user of Spotify; it has interesting gaps in catalogues, so I still like to acquire albums myself), but I might use it to remind me of gaps in my own collection of Miles.

I started out as a teenage fan of his current releases at the time (starting with Live/Evil) because they fitted with some of my other listening, which included Hendrix, Lifetime, Mahavishnu, Santana, Return to Forever, Soft Machine, Egg, Gong, Hatfield. It was years before I started to explore his earlier stuff, but it's still the Electric Miles period that I truly connect with; Agharta, Dark Magus, Get Up With It, Bitches Brew Live and especially Live/Evil.