How to get the most out of Spotify?

>>74602244
Do you know about the Discover Weekly and Release Radar playlists?

>>74602342
I know about Discover Weekly but I haven't heard of the other one, I'll google that. I also found out that pressing "next" within 30s to a track is considered a "thumbs down".

>>74602430
Release Radar is updated every Friday and it focuses on music that's been released in the past few weeks. Like Discover Weekly it is unique to your profile.

If you follow an artist, their new music will always appear in the playlist. I'm not a huge playlist guy, but it's a nice way to keep up with new releases.

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>>74602508
does this work with the desktop version?

Just use last.fm

>>74602493
>I'm not a huge playlist guy
Me neither, but so far I've just used it as a library to search albums from and I feel like I'm not using it to its full potential. I'm fascinated by the possibility of finding new artists automatically, sort of like how audioscrobbler did it in the early 2000s but better. I'll still listen to full albums but for discovery single tracks are fine, I can usually tell if I'm interested in finding their albums based on one song.
>>74602508
I get premium for 4.99 so it's no big deal and I have to say I'd probably pay full price anyway after seeing how the service has developed. Back in 2009 or whenever I last tried it I couldn't justify paying for premium.

>>74602724
I did, a decade ago. Finding new music by the means of seeing a suggestion, downloading an album and listening felt great in 2006 but these days it's just ridiculously cumbersome. Especially if I'm not home.

>>74602747
I do more or less the same. I'll spend a bit of time going through the playlists each week and I'll add any song I like to a backlog playlist, which I use to listen to new albums.

The discover weekly playlist is biased pretty heavily to recent listening by the way.

>>74602843
>I'll add any song I like to a backlog playlist
Have you heard of this? https://ifttt.com/applets/28689208d-discover-weekly-archive
Automatically archives Discover Weekly so it won't disappear when you get a new one.

>>74602724
is this real life?

Last.fm is still nice for tracking what you've been listening to, but Spotify is now much better for discovering music

Release Radar may have a lot of junk like compilations and rereleases in it if you listen to a lot of older artists, but Discover Weekly has been pretty good for me - I guess if you a lot of music listening outside of Spotify you can get music you already listen to recommended, so maximizing your music listening through Spotify improves Discover Weekly

I like the Related Artists -feature in general, but pretty quickly it's going to be full of familiar names if you're not checking out a totally new genre - I'd actually really like to see some sort of "Similar Albums" -feature like Allmusic.com has when looking at an album page

>>74602244
Not related but does anyone know why an artist shouldn't appear in my Daily Mixes? It's the band I listen the most and I don't think I've ever seen it in one of them.

>>74603046
Could the algorith deem it too familiar to you? No point in recommending it if it's already your most played artist. I'm only guessing here.

If there's a certain genre you're really into, search "the sound of (genre)" and one of the Particle Detector playlists should come up (their playlists aren't all-encompassing but they're extensive)

The "sound of" playlist is basically an entry level playlist into the genre, but more interestingly...

From there, there are the Pulse and Edge versions of the playlists; the Pulse playlist consists of what songs dedicated listeners of that genre have been playing a lot of, the Edge playlist is new music within that genre that's starting to get traction. The algorithm at the center of these playlists doesn't always get it right (I've come across music from entirely disparate styles of music before) but I've made some good discoveries using these.

>>74603724
Thanks. The spotify search only turned up some generic "sound of pop" playlists but I searched for Particle Detector specifically and he seems to have playlists that are very stricly confined which is nice since my taste is pretty eclectic.