How to break free of Spotify’s algorithm

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Why I Finally Quit Spotify | the New Yorker

Spotify, for example, has invested heavily in its own curation services — both algorithmic and human — after finding that many of its listeners were baffled by superabundance, burdened by excessive choice and uninterested in charting their own paths through the digital wilderness.

ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents

Unlocking Spotify Algorithms: Proven Strategies from 2 Years of Boosting Artist Visibility on Streaming Platforms

Julie Knibbe music-tomorrow.com

This problem is almost impossible to fix in a culture that relies heavily on algorithms. The algorithm is, by definition, a repeating pattern that always looks backward. It does something in the future based on what worked in the past.

So the algorithm that recommends music or videos on a web platform will never deliver a totally fresh and new expe... See more

Ted Gioia • How to Know if You're Living in a Doom Loop

The original version of Discover Weekly was supposed to include only songs that users had never listened to before. But in its first internal test at Spotify, a bug in the algorithm let through songs that users had already heard. “Everyone reported it as a bug, and we fixed it so that every single song was totally new,” Ogle told me.But after Ogle’... See more

Derek Thompson • The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything

Rise of an Anti-Algorithm Music Counterculture [Mark Mulligan]

Mark Mulligan hypebot.com