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Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by bloat »

aloukissas wrote: post #147

By far, the best way I've discovered new music is through radio. Find a station with producers that you jive with and this will be a treasure chest. I was lucky enough to grow up in Athens (GR), where radio is really, really good. A big disappointment happened when I moved to SF (which, aside of KCSM - a great jazz radio - is a music radio disappointment). I was lucky to come across KCRW from LA, perhaps the best rad…

Absolutely! Radio for me has always been the primary way I discover new music, whether that's back in the day listening to John Peel or Patrick Forge, or nowadays lots of WFMU.org (a decades old New Jersey free-form station) and NTS radio.

I do listen to algorithmic radio sometimes, if I'm in the mood for something specific, but it doesn't feel the same as having a live DJ playing records.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by minikomi »

I created http://poyo.co/soundcloud2 as an extremely bare-bones extrapolation of how I find music on sound cloud, and it's fun to use. It build a little graph of the top-likers of a track, and their top-likes.. you can then go to one of the other songs by double clicking and starting the process again. You often find yourself far from your bubble of music.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by cm2187 »

dorian-graph wrote: post #87

I would add: - Radio stations, especially triple j [1] and SomaFM [2] - Hype Machine [3] with Plug (macOS) [4] - Similar artists (e.g. on Last.fm [5]) - Other artists on the same label (e.g. Ghostly [6]) - Wander through a record store - Search for one of your favourite songs and see what other user's playlists it's on - YouTube chanels (e.g. David Dean Burkhart [7]) - Bandcamp—just wander around, and also check out…

In the old days there was a service offered to radio stations, they were sending them regularly large curated compilations CDs of the latest potential hits. You could find these CDs on torrent websites and usenet. There must be something similar today.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by pastrami_panda »

minikomi wrote: post #192

I created http://poyo.co/soundcloud2 as an extremely bare-bones extrapolation of how I find music on sound cloud, and it's fun to use. It build a little graph of the top-likers of a track, and their top-likes.. you can then go to one of the other songs by double clicking and starting the process again. You often find yourself far from your bubble of music.

When trying to search you're immediately returned to the same page again with a blank search bar, seems like it went down or something.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Munksgaard »

pastrami_panda wrote: post #195
minikomi wrote: post #192

I created http://poyo.co/soundcloud2 as an extremely bare-bones extrapolation of how I find music on sound cloud, and it's fun to use. It build a little graph of the top-likers of a track, and their top-likes.. you can then go to one of the other songs by double clicking and starting the process again. You often find yourself far from your bubble of music.

When trying to search you're immediately returned to the same page again with a blank search bar, seems like it went down or something.

It's working fine for me. However, I found out that by "search" it means "input the url of a song you like".

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Munksgaard »

minikomi wrote: post #192

I created http://poyo.co/soundcloud2 as an extremely bare-bones extrapolation of how I find music on sound cloud, and it's fun to use. It build a little graph of the top-likers of a track, and their top-likes.. you can then go to one of the other songs by double clicking and starting the process again. You often find yourself far from your bubble of music.

That's pretty cool, I know what I'll be doing today!

What are the black dots? Listeners? If so it would be great if clicking them actually opened up their soundcloud profile. As another small suggestion, it would be nice with a title on mouseover on both the orange and black dots.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by gfxgirl »

aloukissas wrote: post #147

By far, the best way I've discovered new music is through radio. Find a station with producers that you jive with and this will be a treasure chest. I was lucky enough to grow up in Athens (GR), where radio is really, really good. A big disappointment happened when I moved to SF (which, aside of KCSM - a great jazz radio - is a music radio disappointment). I was lucky to come across KCRW from LA, perhaps the best rad…

No radio stations have ever played the music I'm looking for so no, this doesn't work for me at all. The majority of stations play top 40, or top R&B/Urban (no idea what the PC description is), top country, class rock. Maybe if you live in LA or NYC there are some other stations with more eclectic selections like say KCRW in LA but I have no interest in what they play.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by IanSanders »

dorian-graph wrote: post #87

I would add: - Radio stations, especially triple j [1] and SomaFM [2] - Hype Machine [3] with Plug (macOS) [4] - Similar artists (e.g. on Last.fm [5]) - Other artists on the same label (e.g. Ghostly [6]) - Wander through a record store - Search for one of your favourite songs and see what other user's playlists it's on - YouTube chanels (e.g. David Dean Burkhart [7]) - Bandcamp—just wander around, and also check out…

I miss last.fm. Such a shame what has been done to it

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by rapnie »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #171
Uhhrrr wrote: post #67

Rather than subjecting oneself to the whims of recommendation engines and random people, I recommend starting with the artists you like: -Find out who they've toured with - this is one of the strongest signals possible -Find out who produced their albums, and check out other albums produced by those folks -See if people in their band(s) have released their own work -Read interviews to find out who their influences ar…

All good points. But why doesn't Spotify, Apple, etc. either make this node options available to traverse the library? Or at least incorporate it into their algorithms to improve suggestions? I find Spotify's suggestions closer to "Here's things we're confident you won't hate." Which makes sense if "engagement" is their measurement. But by my measurement, it's yawn-city. Beige. My best source used to be BBC Radio Mus…

I used to be quite happy with Spotify suggestions, but these have become much worse lately. Mostly remixes of what I already listened to. And the new app ux feels more unintuitive, adds friction (way more clicks). I am at the point where I start looking for alternative music players.
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