Re: 1. -- I find the recommendation engine ABHORRENT.
Disclaimer -- I have only recently started to use Spotify on a daily basis. And typically I am playing an already known-good-to-me Artist channel, and I am admittedly a newbie to using spotify in general.
With that said though, there was some feature, I believe it was called "discover music while you listen" or some such thing that would play some other artists amongst that which I chose to shuffle/play.
The genres werent even in the same galaxy!
I listen to EDM and industrial almost exclusively. It was interjecting Taylor swift, some country-sounding stuff and some other stuff that I couldnt identify but was the complete opposite of the spectrum from what I was into...
Further, finding a particular song that has the same word in the title as some song that is being heavily pushed seems impossible.
There is some band called TOVE LO -- and any time I search for a song actually titled "habits" not by them - the only thing it shows me is this TOVE LO page...
so, yeah - my experience with their recommendations has been worse than sub par.
I found 3 different "Habits" songs relatively easily. Are you sure it was Taylor Swift? Or just Taylor Swift-esque? Because she has relatively-famously not allowed her music on the platform.
I would recommend giving Spotify another shot, maybe spend some time favoriting and saving songs you do like, as it's recommendations have been on point for me.
Disclaimer -- I have only recently started to use Spotify on a daily basis. And typically I am playing an already known-good-to-me Artist channel, and I am admittedly a newbie to using spotify in general.
With that said though, there was some feature, I believe it was called "discover music while you listen" or some such thing that would play some other artists amongst that which I chose to shuffle/play.
The genres werent even in the same galaxy!
I listen to EDM and industrial almost exclusively. It was interjecting Taylor swift, some country-sounding stuff and some other stuff that I couldnt identify but was the complete opposite of the spectrum from what I was into...
Further, finding a particular song that has the same word in the title as some song that is being heavily pushed seems impossible.
There is some band called TOVE LO -- and any time I search for a song actually titled "habits" not by them - the only thing it shows me is this TOVE LO page...
so, yeah - my experience with their recommendations has been worse than sub par.