This is one of my main complaints. Back when Google Play Music was still a thing, I uploaded my library of ~30k tracks that had been ripped from the massive binder of CDs I'd accumulated over the years, plus stuff from friends, stuff I got off torrents to replace albums I'd already bought on tape, etc.
They have a huge sample set of stuff I like just from that (it's still accessibly via YouTube Music, but it sucks). Still, any time I fire up YouTube Music and play a song, the next 2 or 3 can be solidly appropriate and often stuff I wouldn't have thought to play - in a good way.
Then there's a sharp decline where it just starts playing the same thing it played last time or the most common song off the most popular album from the most well known artist adjacent to what played previously.
The whole reason I use the "algorithmic feed" is because it should be optimized for my tastes and what will keep me listening. I still "thumbs-up/down" stuff but it never seems to work. You would think with their insane library and huge dataset of my prefs and listening data they'd be able to generate something great.
Instead I just go back to the human programmed Shoutcast stations I have bookmarked after a few songs.
They have a huge sample set of stuff I like just from that (it's still accessibly via YouTube Music, but it sucks). Still, any time I fire up YouTube Music and play a song, the next 2 or 3 can be solidly appropriate and often stuff I wouldn't have thought to play - in a good way.
Then there's a sharp decline where it just starts playing the same thing it played last time or the most common song off the most popular album from the most well known artist adjacent to what played previously.
The whole reason I use the "algorithmic feed" is because it should be optimized for my tastes and what will keep me listening. I still "thumbs-up/down" stuff but it never seems to work. You would think with their insane library and huge dataset of my prefs and listening data they'd be able to generate something great.
Instead I just go back to the human programmed Shoutcast stations I have bookmarked after a few songs.