I listen to music 3-6 hours a day and am the type of person who doesn’t enjoy hearing the same song the same day or really the day after. Sites I’ve used for discovering new music were reddit and rateyourmusic.com.

Beyond that I do use Spotify song radios, but typically the song has to be far outside my standard genres to show me new music.

Whatdo others use to discover new music?

  • modifier ( modifier@lemmy.ca ) 
    4·
    3 years ago

    It’s all mostly happenstance and serendipity but I do find a lot of music by googling what I hear in the background of movies and TV. Letterkenny always has really good music and it’s always or almost always by a Canadian group that I might not otherwise encounter.

  • Man Zonder Poespas ( man_zonder_poespas@feddit.nl ) 
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    3 years ago

    I usually get a bunch of cool stuff from the Quietus end-of-year list. It’s a lot more varied than the lists of most other publications.

    Besides that, mostly Rateyourmusic for sure, especially the “Let’s all find the next gem of [current year]” forum threads. I also used to visit /mu/ for recommendations back in the day, but the culture there made me, uhh, reconsider my life choices.

  • Briongloid ( briongloid@aussie.zone ) 
    3·
    3 years ago

    It used to be Discovery on whatever music app I’m subscribed to, but they have all turned awful for finding good music.

    They always end up playing the same type of single creator synthesised music that presumably is cheaper per stream than big bands.

    There are so many proper rock bands over the last 50 years, I just wish I knew how to find them.

    Whenever I come across a new band I add their albums to my Plex, eventually I’ll have enough to do my own discovery.

  • the w ( itmightbethew@beehaw.org ) 
    3·
    3 years ago

    yeah, Spotify really thinks you wanna hear the same dozen or songs on a loop. I’d love it if I could “pause” a song and keep it out of rotation for a few weeks. The AI DJ is very occasionally helpful - in between sets of the usual he’ll blast you with something out of left field.

    I find it’s more useful to look at artist playlists on spotify - see what they are inspired by. As long as the band’s not too big, then it’s more what their label wants to push.

    I also use Bandcamp #discover where you can browse by tags - which seems kinda oldschool now. But so far works great for me

  • Grassgrowz ( Grassgrowz@beehaw.org ) 
    3·
    3 years ago

    honestly the spotify algorithm is shockingly good at recommending me new music. it knows my taste inside and out. And i listen to almost every genre, but have my specific preferences to every genre. Been on the same account for like 10 years so spotify knows me pretty well by now

    • WatTyler ( WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
      1·
      3 years ago

      Do you have any advice on how to improve your recommendations? I never feel secure in what Spotify recommends me. I don’t know if part of the problem is I use it for my ‘active’ listening and my ‘passive’ background work mixes.

    • ice9 ( ice9@lemmy.world ) 
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      3 years ago

      I missed so much good music because I replied on music algorithm recommendatuons, BV has been great for finding the kinds of music I like

  • suddenlythequietrose ( suddenlythequietrose@beehaw.org ) 
    3·
    3 years ago

    I use a combination of Spotify discover weekly playlists, related artist lists, and lately I’ve been finding a random new category that Spotify curates and then searching for playlists of the same type that are curated by users. I think I get more deep cuts that way.

  • noodlejetski ( noodlejetski@beehaw.org ) 
    3·
    3 years ago

    Spotify’s Discover Weekly used to be great for me for a long time and I’d get lots of new music that I liked. it got pretty stale over the past year or so, with stuff that I don’t enjoy at all, and it often recommends me the same songs that I tell it to not recommend. it feels like I’ve reached the end of the internet and there’s no more music left to try.

  • GiantBasil ( GiantBasil@beehaw.org ) 
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    3 years ago

    There’s some pretty good YouTube channels geared for that, you just have to find the ones with the vibes you like. And once you’re into one those channels, youtube gets very good at recommending more of those channels.

    I really like Music for empty rooms they have a lot of all kind of ambient music, jazz, niche psychedelic rock, old disco/soul, really hard to find japanese music, international older instrumental stuff 60s-80s. Overall more niche I guess, I love them, give a try, they update everyday, sometimes a full album. And The art of listening they post less often, but it’s always full albums and they have much more recent stuff, and they have a very diverse repertoire of styles outside of the most popular rock-pop. From all around the world.