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[-] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Used to use Spotify pretty much exclusively, and by now their algorithm is pretty good at giving me songs I like. However, Spotify as a company sucks, and also spotify's shuffle is shit (the magic shuffle or whatever they call it is even worse IMO).

Nowadays I mostly listen to mixes on YouTube and internet radio for discovering music, but I also find the occasional song on reddit. When I like something I buy it on bandcamp to support the artists I listen to.

[-] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Rollins nights on NPR

[-] Atin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Spotify's Discover Weekly mostly. YouTube music for things like trance remixes or cover songs.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

I'm VERY old school.

OTA radio

Youtube - search for my genre(s)

Wikipedia (starting here and winding down a wiki-hole)

HardRadio

[-] Volkditty@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Primarily listen on Spotify. I try to expand my horizons using their discovery playlists or artist/track radio for songs I already like, but they've got me heavily pigeonholed into late 90's college rock and early/mid 00's pop-punk....which is harsh but fair.

I occasionally check out place like Bandcamp or Tapefear for some rut busters. Most recently, Bandcamp turned me on to Irish hip hop artist Denise Chaila, which was a welcome surprise.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Local community radio, streaming recommendations, opening acts at shows and festivals my kids and coworkers.

I listen mostly by streaming but radio here is still good because of the local not for profit station.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 8 months ago

I watch music reaction youtubers. They showcase a large amount of new music in a short amount of time and are kind of like DJs where they preselect good stuff already.

[-] kernelle@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

My ways have already been discussed, except for NTS Radio, some of the best new music I've listened too were on there.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

I make my own playlists based on checking out similar artists using Google searches of "artists like x" format and listen pretty much exclusively through those playlist as a quick collection of songs that I like, the playlists range from 2-50 hours and are either based on mood, genre or personal life events, they are ordered to preserve both the order in which I discovered the music but also so that they flow well from one song to another.

I only ever really listen on single song repeat mode, when I'm bored of the song I pick out another one, but I'll listen to the playlist as a whole to make sure it flows right.

I have a large offline collection but I've been mostly using Spotify Premium these past 6 years, the recommendations it gives at the bottom of playlists are sometimes also utilized.

I mostly listen to music at my desk on my desktop through my Beyer DT1990 with an EQ for flat frequency response or my nice wired T2 IEMs through my phone.

Sometimes I'll check out something on SoundCloud or Spotify suggestions when I post my own music to both to see what's considered related out of curiousity but it's mostly garbage, my own music included, though sometimes I stumble on something interesting from an artist who's main similarity is <10 monthly listeners.

I feel like apart from my S.O. in some aspects, I've never met anyone who interacts with music in this way, people maybe make a workout playlist at most or listen to other people's or listen only to albums haha 😂

[-] maniel@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I used to use Spotify out of laziness, after a recent price hike I switched to local mp3 playback, I'm discovering music through radio, there's always something playing at work, at home, in a car, trying to diversify stations I hear, sometimes social media pops a new song in my ear

[-] safesyrup@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 8 months ago

Reccomendations from friends, spotify. Whenever i doscover a new genre i tend to read the wikipedia article on it‘s history which will tell me who some of the pioneering artists of said subgenre are. What i love about spotify is i can listen to playlists for a certain genre made by other people and not the crap that spotify throws at me which are biased by my listening history.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago
[-] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

ahh, thanks. I've been overthinking this process the whole time

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