How to Find More Music You’ll Love on Spotify
Finding Good music on Spotify
Do you have trouble discovering new music to enjoy? Even in the age of music streaming, where we have millions of songs within a few clicks, it’s easy to fall into a rut of listening to the same old music all of the time.
If you’re a Spotify user, you’ll be happy to know that the streaming service has plenty of features to help you find new music. And in most cases, these features let you find similar songs to what you already listen to.
So, here’s how to find more music you’ll love on Spotify…
1. Create a Spotify Playlist With Similar Songs
One little Spotify tip that’s easy to miss is hiding right in your playlist's sidebar: the ability to create a similar playlist to anything you already have.
Right-click on any playlist, and you’ll see several options that you probably know about. These include making a playlist public so others can enjoy it, downloading it for offline listening, and sharing it. There’s also a Create Similar Playlist option.
This is a handy tool that instantly generates a playlist of similar but different tracks for you. Try creating a playlist full of new genres that you want to explore, then use this option to find more artists who perform that type of music. If your favorite playlist is getting a bit stale, try generating a fresh one.
This feature is great because it uses the playlists you’ve already created as a base for recommending new music. It doesn’t affect your existing playlist, and you can even create a similar playlist from a similar playlist to dive even deeper. A kind of playlist inception.
2. Add Recommended Tracks to Playlists
Do you have an idea for a cool playlist, but don’t have enough tracks to fill it out? Spotify can help.
Create a new playlist by clicking New Playlist on the left-hand side of the screen, which appears above the Now Playing album art section. Give it a name, add a description, and add some custom cover art if you like. Then start adding tracks to it by dragging and dropping or right-clicking and choosing Add to Playlist.
Once you have a few tracks in a playlist, click on it in the left sidebar. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll see Recommended Songs click the dropdown arrow next to this if you don’t see new tracks below it.
You can play these to preview them, then press Add to send the ones you like up into your playlist. Hit the Refresh button to get a different selection.
3. See What Your Friends Are Playing
Although you can easily turn off the sharing features, Spotify is still a social music service. It lets you share playlists with the world and embed music pretty much anywhere. But don’t forget about the Friend Activity panel hidden on the right-hand side of Spotify’s window.
You may have hidden this a long time ago, so go to View > Friend Activity to show it again. Note that the panel won’t show up if your Spotify window isn’t wide enough.
This displays what your friends or followed users are listening to. Click Find Friends at the bottom of this window to follow more people.
4. Check Out the Discover Tab
Don’t forget that Spotify has an entire tab called Discover that’s devoted to helping you find new music. To access it, click the Browse entry on the left sidebar, then find Discover along the top row.
In the Discover section, you would find the excellent Discover Weekly and also, Release Radar playlists. Updated automatically every week (on Mondays and Fridays, respectively), these bring you fresh music and new releases that Spotify thinks you’ll enjoy.
