I'm currently getting through the free subs. I tried Spotify and didn't like it. YouTube Music was fine, but would sometimes stop playing and not restart on its own. I'm currently on Amazon Music. It has three months free sub, while other services have only one, but it's so bad. The recommendations are all complete miss. It's unusable for me. Even Deezer was a better experience. I'm still yet to try Apple Music and Tidal. Are they better?

I don't listen to music all that much and I feel like it's mostly due to discovery issues. I try to feed the apps the info about my taste, but they don't seem to comprehend. :/

  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    8 months ago

    I've been using Rate Your Music for the past three years now. In mid-2022 they overhauled their recommendation system and it might suit your needs if you put the time into rating things you like and hate.

    It uses your release ratings to figure out what genres and descriptors you respond well to, and which ones you don't like, and uses that to not only recommend you releases you haven't rated in the genres/descriptors you like, but also releases that are outside your comfort zone to broaden your tastes a bit. I used it briefly as I've got a massive backlog and want to focus on that, but I found some great stuff through the recommendation system.

    I believe free users and regular (£20/yr) supporters get 100 recommendation, Select supporters (£40/yr) get 200. Both supporter tiers also allow fine-tuning of the recommendations, but I've not messed with it. (EDIT: Forgot to mention, you can have generated playlists for Spotify based on your RYM recommendations, and I believe they have intentions to support Apple Music in the future).

    I can provide screenshots if you want to take a look.