Pandora is still really good with recommendations, even for niche stuff (like specific genres of prog)
Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#32Bandcamp if you like underground stuff. Find a genre you like, find an artist you like, find a label you like, find all the other artists on that label.
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#33Bandcamp. It’s awesome for discovering new music.
I love exploring weird micro-genres while working, so the discover feature can keep me going for days while going deep into a particular style. 19A0s dreamwave, vaportrap, Chinese traditional vs dubstep, baroquecore - it’s all there!
Neither Spotify or Apple Music allow searches by deep genre tags - ‘electronic’ is not enough - or by record label, which is frustrating as I often want to explore other artists on the same label. For example, listening to the entire Ghost Box back catalogue.
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#34YouTube with auto play turned on. Play one song you like, and more of the same genre will usually follow. YouTube has a lot of good music that isn’t available on music sites such as Spotify.
Youtube runs into islands. After a point, you are stuck in some domain of music and music starts repeating. Next time I sample a song, it very quickly progresses to songs I know and I'm back in that same island. In my opinion, it needs a "discover" setting in autoplay where it amps up discovery and reduces chances of reaching songs I know.
I can usually go a whole afternoon without songs being repeated, unless I manually choose a new song. Then I sort of end up back in the same playlist all over again. But if it were not for YouTube, there are so many good songs I would have never heard.
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#35Not what it once was, but 8tracks still has lots of good genre-tagged playlists: https://8tracks.com/ Also Spotify and YouTube.
8tracks was by far the best music discovery experience I had. Curated playlists, mostly less well known artists (or before they become popular), tagged by moods, very easy to find something you'd like to listen to at any given time. I've discovered a lot of music I like through 8tracks.
I also find human curated mood tags to be more representative than "genre" labels.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#36Spotify. Their “Discover more artists.” / “Fans also like.” feature has provided me with quite a few interesting bands I didn’t know before. Their curated genre playlists are fantastic as well. I mostly listen to progressive metal / progressive rock and occasionally some electronic music, too. Their algorithms and curated content work well even for those not-exactly-mainstream genres.
That hardly ever works for me. It's either "here's another artist that's like these ones, only more mediocre" or completely crazy ones, like a playlist of the album Ilana (The Creator) by Mdou Moctar, a Berber electric guitarist, where Spotify recommendations are all for Tyler The Creator.
You should check out Tinariwen
https://youtu.be/WcqlOq1cjjc
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#37bandcamp. it's turned into a bit of a community, and you can rest assured that sales go to the releasing entity (8% bandcamp fee.) as well as not shunting sales into low-return streaming. I use it both for my musical releases and for finding new music across the spectrum. The entities putting music on there are largely the ones making it, not some corporate entities that don't have time for fans... (itunes, spotify,…
Bandcamp heartily seconded.
I like listening to their Bandcamp Weekly, a pseudo-radio show that highlights new releases. It's not as diverse as Bandcamp itself, as the DJ seems to be mostly into hybrid jazz/ambient/hiphop/world, but if you like that sort of thing, you should definitely take a listen.
I also try to go see live music as much as I can, as I often find favorite artists who are opening for the band I went to see.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Youtube runs into islands. After a point, you are stuck in some domain of music and music starts repeating. Next time I sample a song, it very quickly progresses to songs I know and I'm back in that same island. In my opinion, it needs a "discover" setting in autoplay where it amps up discovery and reduces chances of reaching songs I know.
I can usually go a whole afternoon without songs being repeated, unless I manually choose a new song. Then I sort of end up back in the same playlist all over again. But if it were not for YouTube, there are so many good songs I would have never heard.
Oh, I agree with you! I know a lot of music only courtesy of youtube, but I can't explore the neighboring region of those songs I've repeated a number of times. Maybe it's just in how I discover in a very narrow music domain, I don't know.
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#39https://last.fm
It's one of the oldest music services on the internet, being around since the early 00s. It changed a lot over time, but survived.
Nowadays, as a paying subscriber you can link your Spotify account and listen to your personal recommendations on any device supporting Spotify Connect.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#40Spotify. Their “Discover more artists.” / “Fans also like.” feature has provided me with quite a few interesting bands I didn’t know before. Their curated genre playlists are fantastic as well. I mostly listen to progressive metal / progressive rock and occasionally some electronic music, too. Their algorithms and curated content work well even for those not-exactly-mainstream genres.
I cant find these. Where can they be found? What are the search terms to be used?