I wish there was some way to feedback that discover weekly has gone off at a tangent. Can I 'reset' it?
After Bowie died I listened to quite a lot of his back catalogue over the next month, I then found my discover weekly had been taken over by 70's prog.
I've heard similar things from people who have let friends or family use their account, or made a 'bad' playlist for a one-off event.
Really I want to 'delete my history' for a couple of weeks - private browsing requires foresight. Maybe it's not possible given how the 'musical taste' data gets hashed? In that case I'd take a full reset!
I've been there. You can't reset it, but Spotify now has a function in the right-click menu named "Create Similar Playlist"; it replaces the current playlist with one that contains the same number of songs, only different, similar songs. As far as I can tell, it uses the same logic that Discovery Weekly does.
Just to comment: I wish you could also "reset to playlists" or "reset to saved", and have it rebuild a profile from scratch based on existing playists (and/or saved media) and just the history of those songs in your profile.
That way, you could just clean up any playlists they made (or things you wanted it to forget!) and rebuild, which saves you from having to start "completely fresh" unless you want to. (It would also flush out any listen history for non-saved media.)
I wish the classical music recommendations were better. Spotify, like most people in general, lump all "classical" music together. If I listen to Mozart or Haydn, I get Romanticism and later types of music as recommendations. I also get recommendations based on the performers and not the composer, though I forgive that because tagging and organizing classical music is an unsolved problem (everyone does it differently).
I'm a musician, and when I'm studying a certain artist (or decade) for a gig in a given week I'll get some obnoxious Discover playlists. A week or two of "normal" listening for me will reset it, but I agree it'd be nice to reset it more directly.
IIRC other articles have mentioned that the Discover algorithm takes into account skips within 30 seconds; not sure how much impact that has though.
After Bowie died I listened to quite a lot of his back catalogue over the next month, I then found my discover weekly had been taken over by 70's prog.
I've heard similar things from people who have let friends or family use their account, or made a 'bad' playlist for a one-off event.
Really I want to 'delete my history' for a couple of weeks - private browsing requires foresight. Maybe it's not possible given how the 'musical taste' data gets hashed? In that case I'd take a full reset!