For those fully on-board with Spotify, its algorithmic Discover Weekly playlist can be a source of similar inspiration for both new and old music, but it requires you listen to everything through the service and invest time in liking or disliking songs to teach it what you want. I had a William Orbit station, and Pandora’s algorithms surfaced all sorts of fascinating stuff by musicians I had (mostly) never heard before. Pandora lets you create your own radio station by seeding it with something you like. Having said that, I did like Pandora’s streaming music service, and would still use had it not been withdrawn from the UK market.
As far as I can tell, streaming music services just don’t care about this kind of thing, except when someone like Ed Sheeran releases half a dozen different versions of the same song. It’s the same for versions of The Messiah, Bach’s St Matthew Passion and any opera you can think of. Simon Rattle’s set with the Vienna Philharmonic is even more different. That’s me.įor example, Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic recorded Beethoven’s nine symphonies four times and they are different, even though they sometimes have the same soloists in the ninth. Streaming music services may have limited appeal for classical music or jazz fans who are album or even box set oriented, and who care deeply about knowing who is playing what, when and how. Apart from Today’s Top Hits on Spotify, there are playlists of happy songs to wake up to, relaxing music to unwind to, party music to dance to, music to go with various types of exercise, music to fall asleep to plus any number of genre-specific playlists.
Most people don’t.) They also provide playlists that are much like thematic replacements for live radio or, as we used to call it, background music. Streaming music services are very good for people who like popular music and are singles-oriented. These include the kinds of music you enjoy, how you listen to it, and why you listen to it. As always, there is no universal answer because it depends on all sorts of factors.
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