{"id":546157,"date":"2026-07-12T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546157\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:06:14","slug":"4-ways-to-find-new-music-spotifys-algorithm-refuses-to-show-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546157\/","title":{"rendered":"4 ways to find new music Spotify’s algorithm refuses to show you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotify’s<\/a> recommendation system helps you discover new songs and revisit forgotten ones: right from your app’s home page, you can find tracks that will find a permanent spot in your library. But this algorithm<\/a> can also make it easy to end up in a boring loop of the same type of music.<\/p>\n

That is why discovery on music apps like Spotify goes beyond the home page and your library. Hidden throughout the app are discovery features that surface music in completely different ways. Here are a few that remain my personal favorites for when I crave new music.<\/p>\n

Song Radio<\/p>\n

Discover the web surrounding your favorites<\/p>\n

Song Radio, an amazing yet often overlooked discovery tool, is a recommendation system that you can use with any song that you wish came in different formats. Song Radio creates an automatically generated playlist based on a single track, expanding outward into songs with a similar sound, mood, or style. Unlike your personalized recommendations, which are influenced by your listening history, Song Radio starts from one song and explores the musical web around it.<\/p>\n

My Song Radio tip is to create a sort of infinite radio loop going. <\/a>You create radio stations from discoveries that you make so you can keep going further down a discovery rabbit hole and inevitably discover songs that never show up through Spotify’s algorithm.<\/p>\n

To access either feature, open a song or playlist, tap the three-dot menu, and select Go to Song Radio or Go to Playlist Radio. It’s a simple trick that produces fresher recommendations than your auto-refreshing home page.<\/p>\n

Blend with different people<\/p>\n

Play song matchmaker<\/p>\n

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Spotify Blend<\/a> is possibly one of my favorite discovery and collaborative features<\/a> that the streaming platform hosts. This allows you to create a shared playlist with others (up to 10 people) so you can jam to songs that you enjoy together, since the playlist matches and “blends” your tastes.<\/p>\n

But if you really want to get the best out of it, there is one thing to keep in mind. It is , of course, highly subjective, but when I used Blend with my closest friends, I quickly realized that this only created a shared playlist that did little to stray very far from my normal music taste. Creating a Blend with someone with a music taste vastly different from yours, like a stranger’s or coworker’s, is a great way to discover new music that you may never come across on your algorithm (while trying to match your tastes, too), so give this a shot.<\/p>\n

To start a Blend, click the + (plus) Create button in your music library or the Create tab, and select Blend. Then, tap Invite to send a link to your friends. Once your invite is accepted, a Blend playlist (which also displays your music compatibility with the collaborator) is created, which can be saved in your library and edited by you and others.<\/p>\n

Advanced search options<\/p>\n

Get super specific in your discovery<\/p>\n

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If you’re looking for something specific, why not search for it the proper way? A neat trick to dig past your Spotify algorithm is the advanced search options, which help you uncover some amazing hidden gems.<\/p>\n

Instead of searching for a song or artist by name, you can use advanced search operators to narrow your results. For example, searching genre: jazz year: 1998, can uncover music from the past. You can even combine filters, such as genre: electropop and year: 2001-2005, to dig into specific eras.<\/p>\n

AI DJ<\/p>\n

A cool feature for better discovery<\/p>\n

When it first came out, I was a little skeptical of this feature, but Spotify’s AI DJ<\/a> has quickly become a frequently visited part of my Spotify experience. This personalization feature<\/a> helps you catch up on new music you may have missed, reconnect with music you haven’t listened to in a while, and listen to songs that make up your Spotify taste profile. This mobile feature utilizes generative AI (OpenAI technology) and Spotify’s personalization technology to give you insights about your music taste and personalize the DJ set, constantly refreshing the lineup based on your feedback.<\/p>\n

To use the Spotify DJ feature, scroll down your Home tab’s Music Feed to find the DJ card, or search DJ in the search bar. Once you access the DJ feature, simply tap play and listen to your personalized DJ set. With new upgrades, you can also tap the DJ button in the lower right corner to request a change in genre or mood. Tap Switch It Up to refresh the set.<\/p>\n

There’s still a lot of work to be done<\/a> with AI DJ, but it’s still a great discovery tool that you can use when you want to discover music (or just revisit some older classics from your taste profile) without swimming through home page recommendations.<\/p>\n

Other ways to discover better<\/p>\n

Spotify hosts a string of underrated features that help you get the best out of it. You can also find new music<\/a> through personalized playlists (like Discover Weekly), AI playlists, and even third-party platforms<\/a> that take discovery to another level.<\/p>\n

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Spotify is a pioneer in music streaming. It features a vast library, impressive bitrate, curated and custom playlists, as well as offline streaming. Spotify is available for free and for a monthly or annual fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spotify’s recommendation system helps you discover new songs and revisit forgotten ones: right from your app’s home page,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-546157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}