Post by George G.

YouTube Music recommendations have been driving me mad. I thumbs-down a song and it never goes away. It’s still there in my recommended playlists and mixes. I tried Discover and Explore and kept getting the same stuff I don’t like. Everything felt like one long loop.

I don’t know what the incentive is for YouTube Music to keep showing me music I don’t like. I had the same problem with Spotify: it put me in a category of stuff I didn’t like, and there was no way to get out of it.

I’ve been trying to offload more of this kind of thing to AI. So I told it what annoys me, which artists I can’t stand and which ones I do like. I use it on my computer and it has permission to connect to my browser, where I’m logged into YouTube Music.

It went through my likes and listening history and has now created seven playlists that I’ll explore. They range from energy boost to cooking, focus and driving music, including three for my 9-hour road trip to Ben Nevis. It’s a mix of artists I already love and new stuff in different languages, all checked against the list of what I don’t want to hear. When I get bored, it can swap in fresh songs.

The algorithm guesses what I like. Now I just tell it.

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