Apple Music subscribers have a couple of ways to discover new music. This includes the New Music Mix, which is its equivalent of Spotify’s Discover Weekly, as well as the your own personalised radio station. And it looks like the fruit company has added a new one, in the form of Discovery Station.
The new feature was first discovered by AppleInsider, though it probably isn’t showing up for everyone within the Apple Music app itself just yet. At least it’s not for us at the time of writing. If you’re in the same boat, here’s a link you can visit that takes you straight to the Discovery Station, courtesy of MacRumors.
So what exactly is new with the Discovery Station on Apple Music? So far it looks to be a radio equivalent of the existing New Music Mix, meaning it won’t run out of songs to recommend to you once. The report claims observes that the algorithm is tuned to only provide you tracks that you’ve never heard of before, but may like. That being said, with no official announcement from Apple itself, there’s no way to know for sure if that is indeed the way the Discovery Station works.
That being said, this sounds quite a fair bit like the option in Spotify that allows it to “Autoplay similar content”. Turning this on from the settings allows the service to play songs that are similar to the playlist that just ended. Though there are no promises of new songs you’ve never heard before here.
Going back to the Apple Music Discovery Station though, as befitting the notorious algorithm that Apple Music makes use of, some recommendations may be pretty far off the mark. But as they say, you miss all the shots that you don’t take, so at some point you’re bound to discover something you like through this new feature.
(Source: AppleInsider, MacRumors)
