That's a pretty pretentious article about a collaborative filtering list that's not even in real-time. It's generated every week and they often miss a week because the service is down.
It constantly recommends me stuff I've already listened to as well. Not really that great based on my experience.
For me, Discover Weekly is awesome, but misses about 50-90% of the time. It feels like every other playlist sucks, but could be just me (or the algorithm...). Thankfully, there's a skip button so I can find new artists/bands that I really do enjoy from the playlist (and I have found about a dozen new ones that I really love now).
Years ago when I used Pandora, their radio was amazing and really kept up with the seed well, I felt. I'm not sure how it holds up now since I rather listen to music I choose instead of the radio, though. I feel like they did a better job in terms of hit/misses.
So, while I really like the opportunity Discover Weekly opens up, it's far, far from perfect, but definitely better than nothing.
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Years ago when I used Pandora, their radio was amazing and really kept up with the seed well, I felt. I'm not sure how it holds up now since I rather listen to music I choose instead of the radio, though. I feel like they did a better job in terms of hit/misses.
So, while I really like the opportunity Discover Weekly opens up, it's far, far from perfect, but definitely better than nothing.