• @starman@programming.devEnglish
    0•8 months ago

    How do you listen to music?

    I use RiMusic. It’s a YT Music fronted, look it up on F-Droid.

    How do you discover music?

    • Various films (especially James Gunn’s)
    • Wikipedia
    • YT Music “For you” section and “Radio” feature
  • @tatterdemalion@programming.dev
    0•8 months ago

    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.

    • CommunityLinkFixerBotBEnglish
      0•8 months ago

      Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !metal@lemmy.world

      • classic
        0•8 months ago

        I don’t understand this not. The link looks the same?

        • Chozo
          0•8 months ago

          That’s because you’re on Mbin, which further complicates Lemmy’s community linking process by making community links not always behave the same even though they look the same. This is something I really wish could be more properly unified across *bin and Lemmy.

  • SanguinePar
    0•8 months ago

    I rarely discover anything new, but I’m currently in the process of getting my entire CD and vinyl collection onto Plex - so in a way I’m rediscovering music that I liked years ago but haven’t heard in ages, especially stuff that wasn’t available on any streaming platforms.

    It’s a slow process though, especially the vinyl - I’ve just about finished the As, but that’s one of the smallest sections! Fun though :-)

  • @01011@monero.town
    0•8 months ago

    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.

  • @TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
    0•8 months ago

    Youtube.

    I realised a few years back that my music tastes had stagnated, that I hadn’t liked any new bands in… too many years, and that I was on the way to becoming to be a stuck-in-the-past old fart.

    So I nuked my youtube data to glass and started again from scratch with The Technique.

    Open all the interesting-looking music in new tabs, don’t-recommend-channel annoying crap, especially reaction videos. Flick through each tab, like and add to genre playlists anything cool, and open a bunch of tabs from the recommendations on that page. If I get three solid bangers from an artist, subscribe. Go with original artists rather than reposts where possible.

    Rinse and repeat.

    If the algorithm starts getting stale, browse and listen through playlists I want to hear more of (often using a third-party shuffle site), to dredge up the silt.

    I don’t generally listen to much of a song while browsing - you can tell from a handful of samples if it’s for you or not, and moving on quickly stops it from getting tedious.

    I have found and enjoyed vastly more new music in the last few years than I did in the two decades before that. It’s awesome.

    • @Interstellar_1@pawb.socialOP
      0•8 months ago

      Very neat! I occsionally find interesting music on YouTube, but you seem to have a whole method down. I’ll have to try this out sometime.

  • @reddig33@lemmy.world
    0•8 months ago

    Pandora works pretty well for discovery, and has multiple “modes” so you can hear album tracks, not just hits. Just put in a few songs of a genre and/or artists you like to build a station of similar suggestions. Use thumbs up/down to tune it. I will warn you that after a year of doing this, it might get in a rut of playing things you’ve already thumbed up. If that happens, switch modes or create a new station.

    YouTube suggestions also has a pretty decent suggestion algorithm if you start thumbing up music you like. It’s also a good place to look at a particular label’s catalog.

    Both are free with ads.

    Also, if there’s an artist you like, be sure to look up who produced your favorite tracks. Chances are they’ve done similar music with other artists.

  • @MenschlicherFehler@feddit.de
    0•8 months ago

    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.

  • HumaniusEnglish
    0•8 months ago

    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.

  • @bstix@feddit.dk
    0•8 months ago

    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.