The weekly mix Tidal is missing: 20 tracks from your favorites, playlists and recommendations – refreshed every week, optionally fully automatic. Free.
People moving from Spotify to Tidal usually miss one thing first: the weekly mix that is simply there on Monday morning, blending the familiar with something new. Tidal instead offers “My Mixes”, sorted by genre and entirely opaque about how they were assembled. Emphasis builds a real weekly mix from your own library instead.
The playlist is called “Your Weekly Mix”, it lives in your Tidal account and plays anywhere Tidal runs. Each run updates it instead of creating another copy, so you never end up with a graveyard of old mixes.
Emphasis reads your recently saved songs, your playlists and your favorite artists, then pulls matching recommendations and similar tracks from Tidal. Every candidate is scored – for closeness to your listening profile, for genre match and for variety. Two hard rules keep it varied: at most two tracks per artist, and songs you have already favorited are dropped.
The scoring system is documented and readable in the source code – unlike the recommendations of the big services, you can see exactly why a track made the cut. Tracks that have been suggested before are remembered and never repeated.
If you want, the Emphasis server takes over the weekly run, even if you never open the page again. That requires a one-time additional permission. Turn the automation off again and every piece of your data is deleted from the server immediately and completely.
Not as a dedicated feature. Tidal has “My Mixes” and a daily discovery mix, but no fixed weekly playlist comparable to Spotify’s Discover Weekly. Emphasis generates one from your own Tidal library.
Tidal’s My Mixes are grouped by genre and their selection is not visible to you. The Emphasis mix uses a documented scoring system, limits every artist to two tracks, excludes songs you already favorited, and never repeats a previously suggested track.
20 tracks – roughly 15 from artists you already know and 5 from new ones. If not enough candidates satisfy every rule, the mix gets shorter rather than worse.
No. Emphasis remembers every track ID it has suggested so far and excludes them from future runs.
Reading favorites, playlists and recommendations, and writing playlists. No access to your password, payment details or subscription settings. Without the automation enabled, no data ever leaves your browser.
Nothing. Emphasis is open source and ad-free; you only need an existing Tidal subscription.