As a subscriber of Spotify and AM who's not on Facebook, I must be missing the resemblance. All I can tell you is that Spotify's recommendations are so uncannily relevant, it does feel as though Spotify is reading my mind. Many times I've thought, "How did they know I'd like this?" I've never had that happen on Apple Music until I started using SongShift to import my Spotify Discover Weekly playlists, which seems to have seeded AM with a more nuanced understanding of my tastes and preferences.Measuring "affinities across listeners" is no different than Facebook's terrible approach. Advertisers love the data but only because it's more data that allows access to more targets. Users themselves receive no benefit from such data until satisfaction or dissatisfaction with content can also be measured.
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Too bad AM and Spotify haven't provided them APIs for integration. I've been willing to pay a premium for Roon, but not willing to subscribe to Tidal or be limited to the iTunes library I haven't added to in years. No fault of Roon's, of course.This is much better and is from Roon which is THE music player for music lovers. Makes all other seem stupid.
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