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The article discusses how online music streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora can enable users to discover new music and critiques the services' curated playlist offerings. The author considers how streaming services can guide users to discover new music without over-constricting their options, and he discusses the classification of music by genre and the possibility of mixing diverse genres in playlists. Music streaming company Tidal's artist-curated playlists are described.

The article discusses the potential for online music-streaming services to encourage music listeners to experiment with listening to a diverse variety of musical genres, highlighting music-streaming service Spotify. Topics addressed include Spotify's efforts to program its curated playlists based on moods and activities rather than on genres, predictions for the disintegration of musical genres, and the impact on what sort of music becomes popular.