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chasm said:

dewme said:

Thanks for pointing this out.

The reason I emphasized "discovered" is that the algorithm seems to be weighted towards finding music that is quite similar to what you already listen to based on what's in your library. I can't tell whether it uses your play history too. I've also found that it also "discovers" music that is already in my library. This begs the question of what "discovery" means to to the algorithm and to you.

I don't think Apple is collecting data from your library as much as it is from songs you have liked/loved, and then polling similar artists you don't appear to have listened to on any of the other "stations" they have. That might be why it occasionally plays you something you already have, perhaps.

My own quick take on it pretty much matches yours: this is a station I could listen to for quite a while, occasionally asking Siri to identify a particular song so I can investigate further. It's good to bust out of your pre-ordained "era" or "genre" or "set of artists" every now and again.

Interestingly, I've never loved or liked any tracks, yet for me My Station does a fine job of playing stuff I like from my library. It often goes for recently added stuff, but also happily tosses in old stuff from my library and new (similar genre) stuff I'm happy to discover. 

I'm also intrigued by how it seems to pick wildly varying genres to start when I say "Play some music". I suspect it might use time-of-day (or just random luck that sometimes picks a welcome track) to influence appropriate mood music.

dewme said:

This begs the question: How do I quickly flag a song on my iPhone or iPad so I can dig into other songs from the same artist? I can select "Show song in Apple Music" on my Mac, but I haven't figured how to do the same thing on other platforms.

Tap Three dots, choose Show Album. From there you can get to the rest of the Artist’s material.

So far (2 minutes!) I’ve not had your positive experience. I’ve not liked the 3 things it’s pushed (from artists I know of, but don’t really like). Counter to your experience, I find the My Station, often inserts unknown stuff that I like… Go figure!

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Yes @dewme, ;Unify PoE WiFi access points are very neat and make extending wifi around challenging houses easy and neat. PoE rocks, if only there weren’t so many flavours…

I’ve always thought it creepy that an app can check if you’ve got another app installed. Is that one of these 30 required reason APIs?