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Re: Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

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Post by PaulHoule »

kleer001 wrote: post #2

I don't understand your question. Is it ironic? All the bands you mention are fairly old. Most stem from the late 80s to mid 90s. You might like Pandora then. They have a famously awesome song fingerprinting tech. Sadly their tech is proprietary and they're walled off in the states. I just discovered King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard because some soul is using Ai to turn a line of lyrics into images in a slide show fo…

There is "new" and "new to you".

If it was "new" music I'd badly want a filter to turn off autotune.

Re: Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

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Post by ihinsdale »

I use an app called Giraf, which I built [0]. My friends and I use it to share the music (and culture in other mediums, e.g. books and movies) that we've been into lately. When something looks interesting, I can save it and it'll be added to a playlist in my Spotify account. I've found that this async format unlocks a lot of discovery that wouldn't have happened otherwise, because the recommendations wouldn't have risen to the level of sending them directly to each other in a text message.

I've worked on this for a few years now, and haven't really shared it on HN before. Any feedback is very welcome!

[0] https://giraf.app

Re: Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

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Post by dieselgate »

I'm not a huge fan of spotify or any streaming service for "music discovery" (maybe would've said different a decade ago). But I really like listening to the radio for music discovery - especially handy with the Shazam app. College and local radio stations are quite varied in the playlists so I'd recommend checking them out either on the fm dial or online - given my background I'd recommend KDVS and KALX college stations (available online too) along with "local" station KEXP (available online). KEXP also has a wide assortment of "live in studio" performances available on their website and youtube which can be good for digging more into an artist.

But some of the best songs/artists I've discovered have just been hearing the song somewhere and using Shazam - then spotify to dig more into the artist.

Good luck in your endeavor

Re: Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

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Post by mattcdrake »

Some methods I use:

- Spotify's "Discover Weekly" playlist - it's hit or miss and it gives me a lot of stuff I know about (and have listened to on their platform!). But, they also send me some cool stuff I haven't heard about.

- Genre specific subreddits - broad ones like /r/music aren't great, but more niche subs have a lot of good recommendations.

- Friends that also love music and know what I'm into - this one has the highest signal to noise ratio, by far.

Re: Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

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Post by midislack »

I make sure to avoid apps, streaming, YouTube, and the rest. If I want to find new music I generally read about what musicians I like are listening to.

Payola is an even bigger problem with streaming than it is on the radio, which is, as we all know, trash.

Re: Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

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Post by atoav »

A good way is to select any one artist you like (e.g. the Zambian Band "Amanaz") and then look the members up, the label, the wikipedia entry, the recording engineer etc. These connections are loose enough to let you find some new things, but not so tight that you find only the same things
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