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We're also working on that very same idea on our open-source music discovery platform ListenBrainz: https://listenbrainz.org/explore/lb-radio/

Basically because we had the same gripes about Spotify's "one size fits all" approach ourselves and wanted to develop something better.



Spotify has enabled fabulous and powerful music discovery experiences for me. For sure it's not perfect and there are many ways to discover music - I'm really glad that you and others are working on new ideas in this space. But I reckon it will be hard to compete with Spotify's algorithmic playlisting expertise and resources.

It would be nice if Spotify added some deeper playlisting functionality tools to give users a bit more control.

However, for me, algorithms are just tools and the best 'radio' will always come from DJs and other humans making mixes and music programs.




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