Let's say I like this one song from a Chilean singer. Not that album, not that singer, just that one specific song.
What both systems do is recommend "here is all of South America's music, and here are all Chilean singers from that decade". Did you pick a Chilean rock song from the late 80's? Here's a Peruvian Charango song from the early '90s. They don't know anything about the songs themselves, only their network effect.
Pandora's "Music Genome Project" was supposedly designed around this issue, but I can't say whether it actually works or not.
sorry i did not have that feeling with last.fm, i had the premium feature of last.fm ( before they removed it ) so you could not request a song but you could play a playlist based on tags or artists ( if i remember it correctly )
the suggestions where great, i loved that feature. i still scrobble from my desktop to last.fm and im in 98 percentile of all users. i listen to a lot of music and with spotify i get the felling its always the same , it cannot learn my preference so i have to manually search for playlists that im ok with.
i would say i listen to deep house mostly, but there is also rock, and hip hop, but i get only the latest edm tracks in my recommendation playlist in spotify, with lastfm i would get indie rock and hip hop artists.
Let's say I like this one song from a Chilean singer. Not that album, not that singer, just that one specific song.
What both systems do is recommend "here is all of South America's music, and here are all Chilean singers from that decade". Did you pick a Chilean rock song from the late 80's? Here's a Peruvian Charango song from the early '90s. They don't know anything about the songs themselves, only their network effect.
Pandora's "Music Genome Project" was supposedly designed around this issue, but I can't say whether it actually works or not.