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Spotify Introduces New Personalized Mixes Featuring Favorite Artists, Genres, and Decades

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Spotify is expanding on its Daily Mix concept by rolling out three new mixes that aim to be increasingly personalized and which evolve over time, offering users more recommendations to choose from based on their mood and interest.

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The new personalized mixes are called Artist Mix, Genre Mix, and Decade Mix. All three start with music that users have been listening to, and are then updated over time with songs chosen by the service's algorithms, based on the user's listening habits.

According to Spotify, each mix category will have several playlists featuring artists, genres, and decades that are listened to often. "They're rooted in familiarity, meaning that you won't just hear your favorite artists, but your favorite songs from those artists," explained the company in its press release.
Then, we supplement by adding in songs we think you'll love, meaning they'll be filled with the music you have on repeat alongside some fresh picks. So whether you want to jam out to a specific artist or hear more music from another decade, there's a mix just for you.
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The new mixes are rolling out to both Free and Premium users globally, and can be found within "Search" in the "Made For You" hub.

Spotify last week overhauled its desktop app and web player with an "improved look and feel" that offers design parity and also makes both the app and the web experience easier to use.

The streaming service also recently added a new History icon to the top of the Home hub, as well as a new section of tiles showing new and relevant podcast episodes.

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I tried Spotify a few years back. Every few months, albums would silently disappear for licensing reasons. After 12 months, half my music had vanished.
 
I find Apple Music mixes and playlists to be vastly superior to Sportify.

But that’s where the superiority stops.

The Music app is riddled with bugs, has so many crappy design choices and confusing interface aspects, hidden functionality, and is embarrassingly slow connecting to the cloud.

It’s simply awful software.
 
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BWhaler said:
I find Apple Music mixes and playlists to be vastly superior to Sportify.

But that’s where the superiority stops.

The Music app is riddled with bugs, has so many crappy design choices and confusing interface aspects, hidden functionality, and is embarrassingly slow connecting to the cloud.

It’s simply awful software.
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I find Spotify’s playlists to be superior for my own tastes but the rest of the family prefer AM. Plus we’re locked in with Apple One so AM wins out on this occasion.
 
I’d love Apple Music to adopt these playlists. I find Spotify has the edge.
I can’t believe in the state of digital music you can’t favourite artists to follow and get latest updates from them!😡
 
BWhaler said:
I find Apple Music mixes and playlists to be vastly superior to Sportify.
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I found the opposite. I tried Apple Music for a year and had to switch back to Spotify. Apple Music would recommend stuff I've already heard or stuff that was really popular (if it's really popular I'll find it, no need to recommend it.) Spotify does a good job of finding new music and artists I have not heard before. That's what I want out of playlists.
 
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TwoBytes said:
I’d love Apple Music to adopt these playlists. I find Spotify has the edge.
I can’t believe in the state of digital music you can’t favourite artists to follow and get latest updates from them!😡
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You do get that from Spotify a lot more. Like Disclosure has a link to their own Discord where you can interact with them and send/make tunes. I’d never have known that with Apple Music.
 
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Spotify is expanding on its Daily Mix concept by rolling out three new mixes that aim to be increasingly personalized and which evolve over time, offering users more recommendations to choose from based on their mood and interest.

spotify-personalized-mixes.jpg

The new personalized mixes are called Artist Mix, Genre Mix, and Decade Mix. All three start with music that users have been listening to, and are then updated over time with songs chosen by the service's algorithms, based on the user's listening habits.

According to Spotify, each mix category will have several playlists featuring artists, genres, and decades that are listened to often. "They're rooted in familiarity, meaning that you won't just hear your favorite artists, but your favorite songs from those artists," explained the company in its press release.
The new mixes are rolling out to both Free and Premium users globally, and can be found within "Search" in the "Made For You" hub.

Spotify last week overhauled its desktop app and web player with an "improved look and feel" that offers design parity and also makes both the app and the web experience easier to use.

The streaming service also recently added a new History icon to the top of the Home hub, as well as a new section of tiles showing new and relevant podcast episodes.

Article Link: Spotify Introduces New Personalized Mixes Featuring Favorite Artists, Genres, and Decades
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I cannot believe it took them this freaking long to make this a feature!
 
slowsoul said:
Half of your music? You must have been really unlucky. Albums on Spotify disappear here and there, but it's a sporadic event.
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At the time there were issues with EMI/KPM, that's one example, but there were more. If the software had warned me of impending removal, that would have helped.
 
Looking forward to trying this out.

I think that Spotify’s automated recommendations are far superior to AM’s.

AM feels more artist and curator lead though with some great playlists chosen by humans - plus the radio shows it has (mostly not my thing apart from the One Mixes).

As some have said though, AM doesn’t have a polished user experience compared to Spotify and feels often feels clunky and harder to use than it should be - it’s puzzling why Apple has seemingly left AM in a ‘it’ll do!’ state.

For example, the ‘pick your artists/genres’ setup screen is unchanged from AM’s debut and uses the thin font weights favoured around iOS 8-9.

EDIT: Spotify aren’t faultless though. I wish they’d have a light mode (on sunny days it can be very hard to use their app) and change their icon on Big Sur to the new roundrect style.
 
These should be super useful. I’m excited to try them out. I love Spotify’s new mobile UI where you can sort your liked songs by mood or genre now too so I don’t have to manually create a playlist with a subset of my own liked songs.
 
macsareveryintreasting said:
Spotify is trying to become Apple Music. It’s obvious.
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Maybe Apple Music should try and be a bit more like Spotify then, based on the comments on this thread.

This stuff isn't new - Pandora has had similar features for the better part of a decade. All we're seeing is iterations of the same discovery algorithms every media platform has adopted over the last decade.
 
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Please continue to support the global corporate sublimation of the arts by renting your music from any of the streamers.
 
BWhaler said:
I find Apple Music mixes and playlists to be vastly superior to Sportify.

But that’s where the superiority stops.

The Music app is riddled with bugs, has so many crappy design choices and confusing interface aspects, hidden functionality, and is embarrassingly slow connecting to the cloud.

It’s simply awful software.
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They let Jimmy Iovine and Dre personally build it. And they were high.
 
You can create your similar Mix in AM using Smart playlists feature. Only thing is it will apply only to your Music Library, so you need to keep adding songs to your library based on recommendations or searches.

Example:
Rock Mix:
New Smart Playlist -> Genre contains Rock + Last played not in 1 days -> Select 25 songs at Random and check live updating.

As you listen this playlist will be automatically updated since there is the clause "Last played not in 1 days".

I have made a bunch of mixes like this and using it for sometime - Hit Mix, Rewind Mix etc.

You can also create On Repeat and Repeat Rewind with clever rules.

On Repeat -> Last Played in the last 30 days, Plays is > 3 and Select 25 by most often played
Repeat Rewind -> Last Played not in the last 30 days, Plays is > 3 and Select 25 by most often played
 
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