Call me basic, but I have no shortage of new music from Spotify and YouTube. Spotify recommendations plus shared playlists from friends. There are a handful of YT channels that host pretty consistent quality musicians, like NPR Tiny Desk, KEXP, Colors Studios, Zildjian Live.
Spotify recommendations have gone to absolute shit since they started recommending sponsored content. The idea of Spotify recommending an artist who is paying them to do it pisses me off. I already pay Spotify for a service, part of that service is recommending me the best music, not just the artists with marketing budgets.
I use rateyourmusic.com to research a genre/artist/ album and then follow where it leads me. It’s amazing how much music is outside the algorithms, and then you get to find them in a differ context too.
Interesting! I’ve only used rateyourmusic for music rating, I didn’t know you could use it for discovery as well.
I stream online radio while commuting.
It’s a great way of discovering what people in other countries listen to or what is happening in certain genres etc.
The small online stations are better than ordinary radio because they usually don’t have commercials and no need to attract large numbers of listeners so they don’t always play the most popular garbage over and over.
It’s as if removing all the commercial aspects of radio makes better radio.
Shoutcast?
I use Radiodroid. Works fine with Bluetooth, but not android auto.
I am still riding the MP3 train. Music from indies and smaller bands I buy on Bandcamp or directly from the artist. Bigger bands from larger labels and really obscure stuff I get from Soulseek.
Discovering music got more difficult after leaving Reddit, I lurked on a lot of genre subs. Now I mostly find new stuff through friends or Youtube recommendations.
Spotify auto-generated playlists
I downloaded what I liked. Now I am stuck with them
Spotify (Web app with ublock and cracked APK), songs from movies/shows, and songs discovered from content creators on twitch and YouTube
Spotify is still good to me with recommendations based on what I have previously liked.
But also a lot of video memes will have bangers I seek out.
KEXP on YouTube. Best radio
Personal recommendations. Sometimes I take a chance on random artists that I see on Bandcamp. Music/artists from TV shows and movies. Music I hear when out and about, Shazam is a wonderful app for identifying tracks.
yt music does all good and also friends
I feel like I’m out of the norm for listening to music these days, especially with the influence of tiktok on music, as I almost never listen to individual songs or playlists. I only ever listen to entire albums, one at a time. I have a massive amount of music that I’m interested in, and each day I just pick an album that I feel like listening to. For discovering music, I have three main sources; two friends who share similar music interests; youtube recommendations, and songs I just hear and then think about some time later.
A mix of Spotify (I have a premium account there), and my own collection of CDs which I have ripped and can access via Jellyfin for higher audio quality.
Mostly through friends, Bandcamp, sometimes BBC Radio 6. And catching random bands at festivals and liking them.
