“The Future of Music Discovery Is People, Not Algorithms”

This is the opinion of Michael Papish from a company called Rovi.  He was speaking at the SXSWi conference down in Texas.  From Billboard:

Papish suggests we are entering a new phase in the digital age. Digital services like Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody and others paved the way for consumer choice, sharing, likeminded community development and live interactivity. But he also argues that no music recommendation service on the market today truly solves the problem of music discovery. He believes it is less about developing the right algorithm as much as it is about studying the human psychology of music

Yep.  I agree.