Comment by vintermann
21 hours ago
I share the disgust at slop music spam sneaking into Spotify's recommendation services last time I used them.
But I absolutely don't agree that Bandcamp does recommendations well. To me, it seems like they don't personalize at all. Maybe you're just lucky enough to share the taste of the (at least human) taste makers at Bandcamp. Spotify's pre-enshittification Discover Weekly was miles better than whatever they do. My experience with old brick and mortar record stores was that at best they stocked a little of the music I enjoyed, but didn't have a clue about it. Most often they didn't stock it at all.
> But I absolutely don't agree that Bandcamp does recommendations well.
I agree with that but I haven't yet seen a system that does recommendations well for me, so I don't see that as a differentiating point.
The main way I discover new music on Bandcamp is by browsing the collections of people who also own albums I love to check what else they bought.
That is better than the front page, but still it takes a lot of effort, and it's just damn hard to measure up to 2015-2016 era Discover Weekly. Probably 80% of the music I listen to I found there or indirectly through there, and I was not at the age they say music taste is supposed to get fixed.