Which music platform's "recommendation system" works best for you?

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Posted by Viber on Mar-21-2018 13:57:

Which music platform's "recommendation system" works best for you?

Iv'e been fucking around with Spotify lately , searching for some obscure tracks and then clicking on "start radio" yields some fine results mixed together with some "meh" tracks... but somehow i get more interesting results with Youtube's recommendations.

What about you? what site gives you the most interesting recommendations?

Posted by djkopernikus on Mar-21-2018 14:44:

There should be a site where you can directly subscribe to an artist. Is there? In my understanding, Spotify only let users to follow other people's playlists and subscribe into those. Am i wrong? This "site" would be only in text (no audio whatsoever) and new entries injected by labels. Data, data, data... I think that kind of site with big database, simple interface and solid servers would help DJ's stay better on track with new music.

To answer your question: YouTube atm.

Posted by Midlothian on Mar-21-2018 14:54:

Spotify's worked best for me re recommendations, but mostly when I wanted to listen to, for instance, something like a dark ambient album by an artist I didn't know yet and then it would nicely suggest other releases on, say, the Cryo Chamber label, and also actually recommend very relevant other artists. The metadata is all clearly there but I wish it would let me do more than just search artist names and album and track titles... Want to browse by label!

Posted by Midlothian on Mar-21-2018 14:57:

Following a few people on Bandcamp has led me to discover some nice things too, but that's obviously not a 'recommendation system'.

Posted by Viber on Mar-22-2018 00:31:

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Originally posted by djkopernikus
There should be a site where you can directly subscribe to an artist. Is there? In my understanding, Spotify only let users to follow other people's playlists and subscribe into those. Am i wrong? This "site" would be only in text (no audio whatsoever) and new entries injected by labels. Data, data, data... I think that kind of site with big database, simple interface and solid servers would help DJ's stay better on track with new music.

To answer your question: YouTube atm.

i'm kinda new at this, but there is a follow button for each artist.

Your idea is kinda good, i'll try that.

Posted by Sykonee on Mar-22-2018 01:23:

Spotify's "Discovery Weekly" playlist, I guess? I dunno, don't really use recommendation algorithms too often. Browsing through Discogs' Recommendations will sometimes lead me to something new, but that's about it.

Posted by Midlothian on Mar-22-2018 06:59:

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Originally posted by Viber
a follow button for each artist

I think I've never actually seen a notification concerning artists I "follow" on Spotify despite new releases actually having appeared on their artist pages. Unless I've been doing something wrong.

Posted by sh33p on Apr-01-2018 12:00:

spotify discover section works pretty well for me, didn't try it with trance music, but for everything else like house, lo-fi and techno it does a nice job 80% of the time

in general, it works much better than apple music and deezer