Music

This is exactly how I've been feeling about it recently. Use it to discover new music but now it just repeats all the same things over and over. Playlist of over 1000 songs in it? What if we just played 32 of them. Smart shuffle? Good in theory but Plexamp does this so much better. I wish the smart shuffle worked like the Plexamp DJ tools.

But don't worry, they'll increase the price (again) to "better the experience"... The lie detector determined that was a lie.

Honestly I used Pandora since it was Beta and I still think it's algorithm is one of the best I've seen. Even if you don't pay for their service, just get a free account and explore. Then if you want to use some other program to build a playlist, at least you've got something working for you.

Yes, I feel like Spotify's algorithms have become good at giving more of the same but worse for discovery. I don't find as many new artists as I used to. And some songs just come up again and again, which I guess are paid promotions.

I've mostly switched to Qobuz, which doesn't have as many auto-generated playlists as Spotify, but can auto-play similar music once your selection has played. Qobuz's emphasis is more on listing albums you might be interested in and having you choose which ones to listen to. I'm discovering more new music this way than through Spotify.