Comment by vladvasiliu

What used to work for me was the "recommended" section under a playlist, as well as the discover weekly. I say "used to" because I haven't actually used to those in a long time for unrelated reasons.

The drawbacks to these is that they require time to go through them. AFAIK, the "automatically continue playing" feature doesn't pick from the recommended section, and it's hit and mostly miss. Furthermore, to use that section, you already need to have a manually created playlist.

The main drawback of the "discover weekly" approach is that it's strongly biased towards your recent activity, which in my case is random background music of the lofi type. I don't particularly care about this music as long as it's not distracting, so I don't care to discover anything, the randomly changing playlists by Spotify are enough. I would much rather these were excluded, so Discover Weekly would only consider what I listen to "intentionally". There's an "exclude from your taste profile" entry when right-clicking on a playlist. Never used this, don't know how it behaves.

However, all in all, I've discovered many songs and artists I hadn't known before, and many of those have become staples. So I can say that I'm pleased with at least some of Spotify's discovery mechanisms.