Why are recommendations so terrible

[grandterr]

The recommendations s*ck:

- Listened to a few anime covers, now all my "Discover Weekly" is filled with disgusting covers. I'm trying to "not like" all of them, but it doesn't work.

- In-playlist recommendations: the algorithm is as dumb as it can be: songs from the same artists, songs from the same country/related. How about actually recommending interesting songs based on the playlist?

- You can't clean history. **bleep**, I've stopped listening to rock years ago and still get rock recommendations.

[onlytocomplain]

At some point about a third of the tracks in weekly discovery were decent. Now I'm happy, if a least one of the 20 albums which are on the home page contains 1 single track that I actually don't want to turn off. Why is the core feature of your app getting worse and worse?

[zkempler]

They probably have some sort of promo from the same songs they keep playing over and over again. I literally have never liked a $uicdeBoy song and that all they keep playing for me. There's a reason after all the content you have thrown at me I have never liked one song. Please stop. Your recommendations are hot garbage Spotify!

[onlytocomplain]

Your recommendations are absolute and utter garbage. Nothing new that is actually similar to the 800 songs in my liked songs, how the **bleep** is it so difficult to not promote garbage music? I thought you used some kind of smart algorithm that tries to suggest objectively similar music but no, it's 99% based on era and genre

[#5]

It's annoying when the only songs I actually play in the spotify 'custom' mixes get switched. For example, the daily mix should only change every day. Not switch out the only songs I listened to in them. Also it keeps replacing the songs I listen to with artists and genres barely listened too instead the main 2 genres I listen to. The 'new' stuff they recommend I don't even like. I even hide to hide almost all songs in one of the mixes because it was so bad, yet it only switched out the ones I didn't hide. This happens on all devices. To everyone. A lot complain. I don't mind switching, as long as it's not the only ones I listen to.

[mikebeverl]

The recommendations are seriously broken

1) Even when I remove a song from an artist, it returns when I reshuffle even though the popup says it will stop recommending that song.

2) It recommends similar songs from the same artist or similar artists when I have requested it to be removed as a recommendation.

3) The recommended songs are basically just top of the pops sort of bs.  My playlist is filled with punk, metal, with a little rap and other stuff.  Recommendations are basically 70's rock bands, pop rock/punk like Nickleback or Papa Roach.  Or I get lots of popular grunge artists.  Nothing in my playlist would/should indicate these are good recommendations.  

It is a crappy algorithm.  My guess it is driven by commercial interests more than anything else.  And, without being able to mark an artist or song with the thumbs down/dislike the songs and artists just keep coming back.  Unfortunate because it makes the shuffle with recommendations unusable.

[mikebeverl]

Sorry man.  This is a bogus answer from you.  Your algorithms are trash.  I do not have a single grunge song or artist in my playlist.  Yet, magically, when I shuffle with recommendations, I get loads of Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, etc.  Of course I am going to keep listening to songs I like.  It would be nice if your recommendations offered stuff I liked as well.

[SWGHL]

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