Our location-based suggestions never really seem to kick in. Again, though, we expected to get more out of this in our time with the product than we did. Whether you’re happy to share this information with Google is a different matter. If you’re at the gym or walking in the park, YouTube Music is happy to tailor its recommendations to suit your activity or the time of day. It’s possible to improve and/or expand the scope of your ‘discoveries’ by enabling location- and activity-based recommendations in the settings. Spotify and Apple certainly have an edge here. You’d expect YouTube Music’s discovery feature to start making a few judicious recommendations in quite short order, but apparently not. That’s strange, given that the service is owned by such an authority on algorithms. It’s more a collection of tracks you already know and like, rather than anything fresh and exciting.

YouTube Music’s sole discovery feature is based partly on the artists you liked or disliked during initial account setup and partly on what you’ve generally listened to.īut despite having put plenty of time into initially picking our favourite bands, plus a solid week of searching for music, listening to music and mashing the ‘like’ button, our ‘Your mixtape’ selection remains predictable and uninspired. You’ll find your recent listening history here, too, but right at the top is ‘Your Mixtape’, which promises ‘endless personalised music’. ‘Home’ is divided into tiers or ‘shelves’ of YouTube-curated genre playlists with names such as Instant Energy, Morning Sunshine and Beast Mode, along with charts and new releases.

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