How to Find New Music • Hacker News Board

Re: How to Find New Music

#201

Post by gfxgirl » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 8:32 AM UTC

Two recommendations

1. If you're subscribed to Youtube Red try Google Play Music (their other probably forgotten service). Their "radio" mode (pick an artist and pick "radio") are vastly superior to Spotify and other services I've used including much better than Youtube/Youtube Music itself.

2. Followers and Influencers

No idea if this is still around but back in 2003-2004 I used to subscribe to Rhapsody (the original music streaming service) and every artist had a list of who influenced them and who they influenced (followers). Those features were huge for me in finding new music.

Re: How to Find New Music

#202

Post by rapnie » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 8:42 AM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #7

I'm surprised this article doesn't mention youtube, which is a major way of finding new music for me. Not only can I find new music through videos that youtube selects as related to ones I like, but listening to playlists that contain music that I like is another great way to find new music, and so is listening through the other music posted by people who post music that I like. And then, of course, one always has th…

Isn't the stuff on YT mostly unofficial uploads where the artist doesn't benefit, whereas with e.g. Spotify at least a couple of pennies (though very little still) are paid to them?

Re: How to Find New Music

#203

Post by PopeDotNinja » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 9:12 AM UTC

gfxgirl wrote: post #201

Two recommendations 1. If you're subscribed to Youtube Red try Google Play Music (their other probably forgotten service). Their "radio" mode (pick an artist and pick "radio") are vastly superior to Spotify and other services I've used including much better than Youtube/Youtube Music itself. 2. Followers and Influencers No idea if this is still around but back in 2003-2004 I used to subscribe to Rhapsody (the origina…

I like Google Play Music and YouTube Premium. I hate YouTube Music.

YouTube Music imports votes from all of my watched videos, most of which I did not like for their musical content. I get the worst recommendations on YouTube Music.

Re: How to Find New Music

#204

Post by polk » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 9:13 AM UTC

gfxgirl wrote: post #198

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.

While great radio stations solve the issue of finding new music, finding great radio stations is even harder than finding new music.

I've been lucky to have moved a few times and discovered some great local radio stations along the way. They still make up the larger part of new music I discover. But I agree, mainstream stations are very unlikely to do this for you, and there's currently no good way to discover good radio stations.

Re: How to Find New Music

#205

Post by abvdasker » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 9:22 AM UTC

I'm kind-of amazed at how neither the post nor any of the comments mention music blogs or music publications.

Pitchfork has been an outstanding resource for me over the years. It's helped me find music that wasn't necessarily aligned with the music I already knew and liked. Because I'm a pretty avid P4K reader, I feel it's turned me on to new artists -- hell, even entire genres -- that I probably would not otherwise discover on my own (and which Spotify definitely would not recommend to me). They have very thorough coverage of new music, though it tends to skew slightly less mainstream. Check it out!

Re: How to Find New Music

#206

Post by no_gravity » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 9:25 AM UTC

JensRex wrote: post #85

mg wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run https://www.music-map.com which might be similar to what you describe? I have never seen (or heard about) the what.cd related artists web. Let me see if I can find a video or images about it...

Confirming an artist not in the database leads to an infinite redirect for me: http://www.gnoosic.com/vote_save.php?pstVote=add&pstItem=cv+...

Interesting. I have never seen that happen and can not reproduce it. Anything special about the browser you use? Feel free to shoot me an email then we can figure it out.

Re: How to Find New Music

#207

Post by r_singh » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 9:27 AM UTC

I'm a huge fan of Apple Music and its playlists.

For anyone looking for background music to work to, check out Apple Music's "Pure Focus" playlist. It's a downtempo goldmine. I put it on on the background—while coding, daily.

Used to use Soma FM the most before I discovered a few playlists on Apple Music like: Beatstrumentals, Loops and my new fav Pure Focus. I feel like the Goa Chill type tunes on Soma FM got a bit much for me.

Re: How to Find New Music

#208

Post by killjoywashere » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

I wish there was more stuff like Indoek Mixtape Mondays. Never heard something on those releases that I'd ever heard before. Very breadth first search strategy.

I feel like the issue is we need a better beam width on most of these search strategies. Or maybe a better approach to beam width?

Re: How to Find New Music

#209

Post by minikomi » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

Munksgaard wrote: post #196

pastrami_panda wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

Yeah, what he said.. it's barebones and really just made for myself and my mates. Sorry for the misleading terminology.

Re: How to Find New Music

#210

Post by minikomi » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 9:29 AM UTC

Munksgaard wrote: post #197

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.

Yeah listeners! It's.. archived so to speak. The source is all there, so knock yourself out :)