Yeah, I was surprised when I read the start of the article. On Mondays, I will start the day by playing my discover weekly playlist and I'll usually have it running throughout the day, saving 1-4 songs from it to my library. Sometimes none.
I just checked and this week I didn't even save a single song for example.
I guess it doesn't help that I do listen to really different types of music depending on what I'm doing. If I'm at home, I'm not listening to the same thing as if I'm at work (developer). When I'm reading, I'll also be listening to something different from normally. I wonder if that makes my discovery much more "basic", since it's a mix of pretty much everything.
This is why they have Daily Mixes, which are clustered by genre.
Discover Weekly seems to have figured out that one of my most listened-to Daily Mixes is post-rock, so it only gives me that. I'm fine with that. I wish they would push the Daily Mixes and Discover Weekly more prominently in the app interface rather than giving me TOP 10 BRAZIL playlists when
I open the app.
Listening to sufficiently different types of music destroys discovery functionality for me. My weekly discovery is almost always filled with music that spans from 'boring and unoriginal' to 'heard this before'. I want some novelty damnit.
I think that one reason Spotify Discovery works so well for me is that I really only use Spotify to listen to one genre of music (however you want to describe it, but it ranges from trap to alternative R&B). Otherwise I'm listening to EDM on Soundcloud. So I end up with a pretty "pure" Discover Weekly playlist.
I don't really use Spotify. But this is why I like Google Play Music, because the playlist suggestions are categorized by what you're doing (rockout at the gym, christmas, working-chillout, working-fun).
But honestly you can't beat just going to youtube for a live stream if you want some chillout-ambient music while you're programming. There's so many talented dj's out there culling new music.
I just checked and this week I didn't even save a single song for example.
I guess it doesn't help that I do listen to really different types of music depending on what I'm doing. If I'm at home, I'm not listening to the same thing as if I'm at work (developer). When I'm reading, I'll also be listening to something different from normally. I wonder if that makes my discovery much more "basic", since it's a mix of pretty much everything.