Our kids like listening to music on their tablets, and we decided it's worth it to pay some money so they can make playlists and don't need to listen to ads. A family account makes sense if you're more than one person, and we ended up with Amazon somewhat randomly. I've been poking around: the personalization features are pretty terrible, and they have a major artist conflation problem. When you first show up it asks you to pick some artists to seed your experience with. I put in the first few bands that came to mind: I would also have included some bands like Nightingale and Nova, but since these are common band names there wasn't any way for me to find the right artist profile in search, so I left them out initially. I also got bored quickly: please don't take this as an exhaustive list of my favorite bands! I felt like I'd picked out a pretty clear "modern contra dance music" cluster in musician space, so I was disappointed when these were my first five "My Soundtrack" recommendations: These are... nothing like the cluster my selections were pointing at. Recommendations should not be that hard anymore; a small cheap LLM (ex: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Claude Haiku 4.5) would do far better. Actually, let's try them. Asking "If someone liks Airdance, The Free Raisins, Crowfoot, Perpetual e-Motion, Great Bear, Kingfisher, and Buddy System, what other artists might they like?" Gemini suggests Pete's Posse, Elixir, KGB, Hotpoint String Band, and Toss the Possum; Claude suggests…

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