I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • sab
    10•11 months ago

    For being so sophisticated, it’s incredible how dumb the Spotify algorithm is.

    For me somehow it decided Pink Moon by Nick Drake was my favourite song. At first it just threw it in the mix randomly when albums finished playing and it went on to play suggestions, but after a few times of me not skipping it it went ballistic. Now every time an album finishes it goes straight to Pink Moon. No matter what Spotify radio I try playing it will be Pink Moon. I keep skipping it and it keeps coming back. I don’t have a problem with Nick Drake I just can’t stand that song any longer. I never once played that song intentionally.

    In the end I just cancelled my subscription.

    • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
      2•11 months ago

      It feels like they did it on purpose, because the main reason I actually pay for Spotify is because it generally is actually pretty good at recommending songs based on other songs I’ve checked the like box on, and I was able to find new music that didn’t completely suck balls.

      This shuffle feature doesn’t seem to use the same algorithm. It just shuffles in artists that are currently popular and may have paid for the bump.