Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world HEXN3T @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 mo. ago

I use Qobuz for music. Recommendations don't exist. What are the best sources for creating playlists with suggestions?

I used to use Apple Music, and never brought playlists over. Also used Spotify and TIDAL, but recommendations were never great on any of these.

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To back up what's already been said, you could use another service to create playlists then use a service like SongShift to replicate it on your platform.

A word of caution though. It might not always pick the right song you want from the album you want. Like, you might get a live version or you might get a version from some random compilation album (especially jarring when the album art appears).

You could also just export from SongShift to a CSV file, if that's your jam.

I've always thought the recommendations from Apple were off. I remember that any time I'd play a grunge playlist, it would include Pink Floyd. Last I used it, I thought Pandora was pretty good.
- Pandora will play a lot of repeats :( it also seems to stick to "safer" (eg popular) songs. I've had much better luck with YouTube music. I've found a lot of eclectic, but very good, music using it.
Honestly Spotify's smart shuffle has been the best for me, but you have to have curated playlists for it to work
I use lidarr on steriods (it has deemix built in, but deemix seems to have been abandoned. it still works for now though) to download flac, and then I scrobble what I'm listening to with Last.fm. I've found some great new music through last.fm's suggestions.
- This is a great suggestion; thanks!
- There's a python application for managing the meta data better than lidarr called beets. You need to be familiar with a terminal, but it has a ton of plugins and options. If you want a GUI, try MusicBrainz Picard, but it's old and not great on really big libraries. For playlist suggestions, plexamp can do that, but only for music you already have.
  
  https://beets.io/
This is the exact reason I switched away from Qobuz. I’m currently using Deezer because they also have flac streaming and it’s an easy recommendation from me.
- Unique case here. Qobuz sells songs. I have the Sublime tier. It's a temporary subscription for acquiring albums for a discount while not losing access to HiFi.
I don’t know about playlists specifically (do you mean something like Spotify’s Discovery playlist?) but I think Last.fm has recommendations.

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