“The new station will play a curated selection of songs based on what you’ve been listening to but haven’t heard before.”
Looks interesting. To me, Apple’s curated playlists have always been superior in quality to Spotify’s but they really don’t have as vas of a selection of curated playlists. Apple Music stations are often excellent, too, if you know how to crate them.
Apple surely can see the complete catalog of The Who that I have in my library, including the vinyl albums that I’ve ripped. Not that the Music app could see it, but Apple could also see the eye-watering amounts of money we’ve spent on tickets to watch 75 year old men prance around on stage (via the tickets from the last three tours in Wallet).
So what’s the first song played on this new Discovery station? “Who Are You?” by…wait for it…The Who. Whether you’re a Who fan or not, is there anyone walking this planet over the age of 21 that hasn’t heard that song?
I don’t know… I’m over 40 and bump into songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s I don’t think I’ve ever heard before. And then I find out that they were hits at the time. Just a month ago I listened to the album Dreamboat Annie by Heart for the first time. And I haven’t really listened to The Who either.
There’s just too much out there.
edit After an hour of listening through this activity list, it gave me the hauntingly beautiful metal song https://music.apple.com/fi/album/a-war-of-our-own/848156513?i=848156526 from 2014. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this band before.