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Pandora doesn't let me do that so far as I can tell. I came across her recently while surveying contemporary Estonian composers. I do want to listen to his contemporaries that compose in different ways. It's derivative and boring in comparison. I love Philip Glass I don't want to listen to a bunch of other people playing triplets against eighths. I found the Pandora choices of songs annoying. I recognize this isn't mainstream listening, and for all I know the ratios are reversed for more popular music. I'm just randomly clicking in my library and doing a comparison, they aren't artfully chosen examples. For her, Pandora makes no recommendations for others to listen to, Spotify lists 20. Philip Glass has 27 albums on Pandora, 105 on Spotify. So, if Spotify is so bad, as would seem evidenced by all these HN threads that pop up from time-to-time, why do people continue to use it? The two services are even priced about the same. But now Pandora does all this too - and has for the past several years.

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I understood people flocking to Spotify back when it was the only game in town that allowed you to play specific songs, make playlists, and 'download' songs for offline (airplane) playback. Have a playlist with 200 songs from 80 different artists? Well, we'll just play this one artist - the same album even! - back to back to back until you're annoyed enough to manually select the next song! The 'shuffle' alone on Spotify was enough to send me running.

Whereas Spotify more-or-less bolted on these features later in the product life. it's literally what Pandora was built on back when it was purely a seeded radio of sorts. Pandora's discovery, recommendations, and shuffle algorithms are objectively superior to Spotify - yet, everyone still seems to use Spotify none-the-less.ĭiscovery, recommendations and shuffle are at the heart of what made Pandora a thing. I'm dumbfounded people still put up with this mess on Spotify. This approach has worked pretty well for me so far, but I really wish that there was a way to explicitly tell Spotify that I 'dislike' a song and to never recommend it to me again. I tend to get bored of songs pretty quickly though, so when a playlist gets too stale, I will prune the old and tired songs from it.

This has the effect of subtly changing the recommendation algorithm for that playlist over time.Įventually I end up with a playlist with about 100 songs on it, and recommendations that at least roughly align with the mood. So I drag that song up and add it to my slowly growing playlist. The vast majority of what it recommends and plays is tolerable but not great.Įvery now and then (maybe one out of every 20-30 songs) I will discover a shiny new gem of a song that really resonates with me. If I don't like a song, I hit the skip button on my keyboard. Then, I go down to the 'Recommended Songs' section and I just play whatever it recommends. I create a playlist to fit a mood (for example, ambient electronic music with a good beat and no words), and I seed it with at least 10 songs. As someone who listens to spotify all day while programming, here's my secret to success:

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