I know this post is over a year old, it has taken me almost that long to find this community and search this very same issue. Regardless of device, signing in and out, standing on my head while whistling, DJ “X” need to be DJ ‘Next’ because the curation of songs for me are a repeat of the exact same songs every time I open my app and begin to listen to a stream of music. I do not know anything about how this AI guy is programmed to choose songs, but he needs a refresh and an update to matching songs to actual human being trying to get a certain sound or music during a specific time. For instance, I love to have music to hear when I am working out at gym. It can be a game changer, and elevate a good workout to a great workout. It can also be and is a major time waste and derailing of activity when I am literally hearing Bob Seager “ Holllywood Nights’ for the 4th go round. Or Tom Patty’s ‘ Maryjane’s last Dance, Refugee, Fee Falling” This AI guy has played AC/DC’s Back in Black” so many times and without exception every time I am working out, that what used to be the a sort of rush when hearing those firsts seconds of the song ( I can’t describe the sound and think it’s a drum?) anyway, talk about an iconic tune that because I played it or searched for it and added it to a playlist, it has almost been played to death. This “X’ also gets the artists name wrong sometimes, which, cmon Spotify, you are a music streaming giant, the programmer can’t get “Bette” to be “bet’ and not “ Bet-Ta’ Midler. Seriously , i bought maynebi was having a stoke or something, but he said the same thing again at a later time, and i wanted to throw scream at the “ guy” but he is not real after all. This specific name X has since corrected and does not say it wrong but there are other instances as well. I will “ask’ X not to play a certain artist, or repeat songs, and this X has the poorest recall and memory because if it doesn’t play the exact artist I did not want to hear, or go back to “ Hollywood Nights” every time I use the resource. It is so freaking frustrating to have this service, which has the digital warehouse of millions of songs and who is supposed to be your go to resource for songs that are in sync with the request made, activity involved in, mood, setting. I realize there are far more serious global and local issues in the world today, so let me say that now. I get it that this is a first world dilemma.
With that said, having the tool that Spotify gives you to curate what should be dynamic, expansive, and diverse song sets, for me, in the few years I have been only using Spotify, the selection I get back is are redundant, in no way represents or even begins to tap the vast amount of artists that are available to stream and instead, links back to the artists, band, musicians that has been played to death by X. The ironic part of this too is what you may choose once, becomes X’s go to,and because it is replayed a few times without skipping it bc you actually did like the song at one time, but it is included so much that X tells you it has been your “top artist for week of…” and instead of sourcing a relevant, similar in style and genre, the actual same song gets played and it is maddening . I can;t hear “Go your own way” by Fleetowod Mac anymore bc X decided I liked it and started every workout with this song or “ Let’s get the Party Started” by Pink. 2 songs and artists that I am a huge fan of but surely X can make a connection to other music and artists that will match up to the style and focus of music selection …nope, it is just repeat, rehash, and plugging in music that I would never listen too, have never listened to, and if I am on my 1st minutes of Treadmill misery, I do NOT want to have X tell me he wants to “change” it up a little ( bc I skipped 16 successive song choices X made, (all repeats of songs from last time) and suddenly I am at a pseudo Sarah Maclughlin (sp?)music like fest and I am actually talking to my phone like it’s a child that does not seem to be able to learn simple math. Can someone/anyone at Spotify skill up X, or transition X out of his global role, and put in place a DJ that utlizes what is the Spotify behemoth repository of music, artists, etc and give me and the others experiencing same/ similar challenges, a selection of music that is representative of the resource at hand and is truly matching the sound being requested by me or anyone and is not a poorly designed AI or programmed DJ that cannot retrieve or create a playlist that is anything but a reboot of what it plays and plays again, or defaults to music that in no way reflects my requests.
