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Honestly all I want is for Spotify to differentiate between music I actually like to actively listen to and music that I like to play in the background 24/7 (e.

Honestly all I want is for Spotify to differentiate between music I actually like to actively listen to and music that I like to play in the background 24/7 (e.g. chill hop)

squeaky-clean 6y ago
Same, my spotify thinks I'm very obsessed with Ambient and Classical. I mean I enjoy those genres, but they're not my typical "active listening", I just always want some sort of sound going on in my apartment. Also whenever I'm DM'ing a D&D game the majority of my daily mixes change to video game music for weeks because I use them as backing music.
- mFixman 6y ago
  Spotify's daily no es solve that problem for me. I always have one or two mixes with chill-hop music accumulating things I listen to when working, plus different mixes with different genres and 0% ambient music. I wish other websites had similar recommendation systems. Spend an afternoon watching shitposting videos and YouTube will only recommends low-effort videos.
renewiltord 6y ago
Youtube music distinguishes between them. You can choose one of many supermixes and it clusters the music together.
- tomrod 6y ago
  I've been surprised how many mixes YouTube throws Matchbox 20 at.
bmhin 6y ago
I've wanted this for video streaming too. After getting rid of cable, I'll often want to put something on in the background while I'm browsing the web or playing switch or something. I feel like almost everyone has a completely different thing they are looking for in active vs passive consumption and being able to tailor it would be very nice. Very straightforward example: I really don't need subtitled shows when I will be half paying attention at best. I also don't want to watch something that is new to me and also "good" when I won't really be paying attention.
freetonik 6y ago
If you're on Family plan, you could sign up for a separate account and use it for background music only. Kind of a hassle, but that's what I'm doing with YouTube so that relaxation recommendations aren't mixed with lectures.
tinco 6y ago
I feel Spotify makes a half decent jab at identifying moods with their "Daily Mixes" feature. Right now for me it's identified 6 sort of genres that I listen to. It didn't identify that one of them is hip hop, and the other one is dutch hip hop, which obviously to me are the same genre, but that's alright. It's got a classical music mix, one for rock, one for soundtracks and one for electronic/lo-fi. It would've been cool if it knew to group electronic/lo-fi, classical and soundtrack together as my background work music, but I'm not sure how it would've learned that as normally I have to pick one of those genres while working, I have no playlists that mix them.

Honestly all I want is for Spotify to differentiate between music I actually like to actively listen to and music that I like to play in the background 24/7 (e.g. chill hop)

squeaky-clean 6y ago

Same, my spotify thinks I'm very obsessed with Ambient and Classical. I mean I enjoy those genres, but they're not my typical "active listening", I just always want some sort of sound going on in my apartment. Also whenever I'm DM'ing a D&D game the majority of my daily mixes change to video game music for weeks because I use them as backing music.

mFixman 6y ago
Spotify's daily no es solve that problem for me. I always have one or two mixes with chill-hop music accumulating things I listen to when working, plus different mixes with different genres and 0% ambient music. I wish other websites had similar recommendation systems. Spend an afternoon watching shitposting videos and YouTube will only recommends low-effort videos.

renewiltord 6y ago

Youtube music distinguishes between them. You can choose one of many supermixes and it clusters the music together.

tomrod 6y ago
I've been surprised how many mixes YouTube throws Matchbox 20 at.

bmhin 6y ago

I've wanted this for video streaming too. After getting rid of cable, I'll often want to put something on in the background while I'm browsing the web or playing switch or something. I feel like almost everyone has a completely different thing they are looking for in active vs passive consumption and being able to tailor it would be very nice. Very straightforward example: I really don't need subtitled shows when I will be half paying attention at best. I also don't want to watch something that is new to me and also "good" when I won't really be paying attention.

freetonik 6y ago

If you're on Family plan, you could sign up for a separate account and use it for background music only. Kind of a hassle, but that's what I'm doing with YouTube so that relaxation recommendations aren't mixed with lectures.

tinco 6y ago

I feel Spotify makes a half decent jab at identifying moods with their "Daily Mixes" feature. Right now for me it's identified 6 sort of genres that I listen to. It didn't identify that one of them is hip hop, and the other one is dutch hip hop, which obviously to me are the same genre, but that's alright. It's got a classical music mix, one for rock, one for soundtracks and one for electronic/lo-fi. It would've been cool if it knew to group electronic/lo-fi, classical and soundtrack together as my background work music, but I'm not sure how it would've learned that as normally I have to pick one of those genres while working, I have no playlists that mix them.