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Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by otterpop »

sachdevap wrote: post #28
joseph wrote: post #11

YouTube 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.

This will forever be my White Whale, but I could have sworn that there was an old version of the Youtube Music app that had a radio/autoplay feature with a slider from 'very similar' to 'wildly different'. I totally overlooked it at the time but now I can't seem to find anything online about it. Such a shame because I love finding weird songs.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by yesenadam »

Not sure if this will help, and depends what you mean new...but SugarMegs is an incredible music site for downloading bootlegs–unreleased concert recordings–that not many people seem to know about. It seems mainly rock, but has enormous amount of jazz, blues, and all kinds of stuff, up to 2019. e.g. I searched "Jimi Hendrix 1968" and it has about 50 complete concerts! Setlist pages too, often with stories and info about the recordings. Be prepared to lose a few days of your life. Search page:

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/

If you find something on there you love, maybe sign up[0] to the private torrent site DIME which has all that and more at the highest possible quality, audio and video. (SugarMegs is audio only, and the quality is fine, but not lossless) Everything on SugarMegs is from there.

http://www.dimeadozen.org/index.php

p.s. If you find incomplete/incorrect info in set listings on SugarMegs, please send an improved html setlist page to them, they'll be grateful. I'm not affiliated, just think it's an incredibly cool site. I've found so many gems on there.

[0] Not so easy, not so hard. Then you have to keep a torrent download:upload ratio lower than 5:1 to download, so don't just download a huge file no-one else wants first up, or you will be stuck unable to get anything else. And membership is deleted after I think 2 months of inactivity.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by 8bitsrule »

calenti wrote: post #53

Internet radio, especially college stations. They have the most eclectic playlists and will range from standards to songs released 10 minutes ago. The NPR All Songs Considered podcasts can also have interesting music finds, especially when they do themed shows.

Ditto... for college stations with real DJs.

Feed URLs source (searchable; includes genres, bitrates, station URLs, location, status): http://www.radio-browser.info/gui/#!/

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by mxxx »

mattkevan wrote: post #33

Bandcamp. 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…

You actually can search Spotify by record label, but it's super unintuitive and I can't remember how to do it. Maybe give their docs a quick search? It's basically a hidden feature.

edit: ok maybe not so unintuitive after all, try

label:"ghost box"

then look at the albums.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by mxxx »

mattkevan wrote: post #33

Bandcamp. 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…

also found this - https://lbl.fm

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by GavriloPrincep »

For anything heavy, use the awesome "Encyclopaedia Metallum" (metal-archives.com).

Locate your favorite band(s), (they have 130,000 bands or something like that) and use the "Similar Artists" list.

There is a add-on, "Empath" that runs in the browser, here: http://www.furia.com/em/

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by anotheryou »

digitalsanctum wrote: post #64
anotheryou wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

did you do AB testing on music quality? I think if you set the HQ toggle in spotify it's really alright. I was able to differentiate 320 mp3 to wav, but only for one song (gorillaz - clint eastwood) and I couldn't say one sounded better than the other.

Funny that you should mention that song. That's of the ones I'm using to test! Another is "Angel" by Massive Attack. I think both are decent for testing lower frequencies. I have the premium version of Spotify and have streaming quality set to the highest setting, "Very High" and I definitely notice a difference. Not sure what you mean by HQ toggle. So far, I've compared to Qobuz and Tidal in terms of quality. Spotif…

that's exactly what I meant - "very high".

I was also really surprised it's the lows, not the highs where I can hear it (maybe I'm just getting old...). Just a bit more punchy and clean :)

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