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Chelle's avatar

I've been saying for a few years that Spotify needs to fix their algorithms. Even shuffling my 90-hour main playlist, I still hear the same 20 songs each time to the point that I have removed some of them.

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astro's avatar

i think you can change this by going into settings, playback, and turning off autoplay similar content. it’s helped me before, and you can always turn it back on when you’re listening to recommended songs or a different playlist.

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Leo's avatar

I hate to spell check the words guy but gyatt has 2 ts

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Adam Aleksic's avatar

there are two accepted spellings. like color and colour. It's allowed

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Leo's avatar

Ah fair enough (you had me on colour)

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Scrupio's avatar

i don’t think that’s true, I think different people just write it differently. (I prefer two ts but i’ve seen LOADS of people use just one so)

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shannon's avatar

Congrats on the book deal!! Looking forward to it

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VMK Morrison's avatar

Congrats on your accomplishments and grant!

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Kim's avatar

You may not think it be like it is but it do 😔

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Veronica's avatar

This post made me think a lot about the book Filterworld by Kyle Chayka. If this stuff interests anyone else, I highly recommend checking out that book.

Additionally, you can turn off the “auto play similar content” feature in settings on Spotify (at least with premium, I don’t know about the free version). It’s drastically changed my listening experience. Sure, I still get pop up recommendations when I’m scrolling the app or the same songs are on the suggested playlists, but I have more control over my engagement with it.

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palash's avatar

I know there’s a broader point you’re making, but about Spotify — have you ever tried clearing the cache? It’s in Profile icon -> settings -> storage -> clear cache button

I had a problem with Spotify recommending the same songs over & over, and my guess is that it was simply replaying the cached ones to save some bandwidth costs.

I saw a significant variance in my recommendations once I cleared the cache.

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almaa's avatar

The algorithm hasn’t been amazing for a while, but now it’s really off the rails. I really like the song espresso, but it’s literally there in every mix and radio playlist even when it does not match!!! And then I get mixes where there’s like 5 songs from ttpd one after the other, then one from hit me hard and soft, etc. I enjoy these albums but they’re not all I want to listen to?? Also, when I listen to a mix :(

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chara's avatar

random question not related to this substack but what can you say on the subject of the language Avestan?

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Abhinav Krishna Diddigam's avatar

So true, the compounding effect of a particular trend propagated by creators is annoying after a point. Same happened with Coldplay recently in India

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