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Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Yizahi »

fetus8 wrote: post #28

Anyone remember back on what.cd the related artists "web" system? That was my favorite way to find music, and since the site's demise, I have yet to find a comparable way of discovering similar artists. Luckily back then, I started following many of my favorite artists and labels on social media, which sort of created a new wave of recommendations based on what those artists are talking about. It works, but it's not…

I remember what.cd to be a mythical amazing website with impossible to find invite and then close to impossible to maintain ratio starting from 0. Never got an invite and had to use more sane trackers for finding new music, last.fm recommendations and finding soundtracks for watched video clips/movies etc.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by pastrami_panda »

minikomi wrote: post #209
Munksgaard wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The behaviour I reported remains the same when pasting this url: https://soundcloud.com/moodygood/slum-village-in-love-moody

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by justusthane »

dang wrote: post #22
justusthane wrote: post #11

Why was this comment killed? I vouched for it to revive it.

It hit a software filter because of past activities by spammers or trolls. I've cleared that now so it won't happen again. Please don't post like this in the threads. If you have a question or see a problem, send it to us at hn@ycombinator.com, as the site guidelines ask ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) so we can answer you and fix the issue. If you post to the thread instead, you not only add off…

Sure thing, sorry! Thanks for all your work.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by soylentcola »

troyvit wrote: post #33
soylentcola wrote: post #29

Other than the stuff already mentioned (subreddits, blogs, playlists, word of mouth) I discover a ton of music via human-programmed streaming "radio". I know it's not as big a thing as it was in the mid-late 2000's but there are still thousands of Shoutcast/Icecast/etc. stations and many of them are programmed by DJs, music enthusiasts, and fans. A good set of bookmarks is like having a radio dial filled with 10 or 2…

Same here, in fact at least 90% of my new music comes from online radio. 90% of that comes from dandelionradio.com. What other streaming radio stations would you recommend?

This stuff tends to vary greatly depending on individual tastes and preferences.

That said, some of the ones I like are

- SomaFM (mentioned in these replies already I think)

- KEXP (an actual broadcast station, but I listen online: https://kexp.org)

- Devil's Night Radio (this was taken down and they regrouped under the name KPJK. I only have the link to listen on TuneIn but it's essentially described as "the best dive bar jukebox" with a mix of punk, garage, oldies, rock, sad cowboy songs, and assorted weird stuff. https://tunein.com/radio/KPJK-s263142/)

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by minikomi »

pastrami_panda wrote: post #232
minikomi wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The behaviour I reported remains the same when pasting this url: https://soundcloud.com/moodygood/slum-village-in-love-moody

Paste a different link :)

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Louno »

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…

Definitely radio, and I love that the music I hear had been choose by someone, not only an algorithm that knows exactly the songs that will appeal to me. May I ask you what the great radios from Athens (GR) are ?

Also, if you can listen to web radio, give a try to the french station FIP (https://www.fip.fr/) they are actually on strike so it's not as good as usually but it's definitely one of the best music radio out there. Hope you enjoy !

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by psychometry »

krick wrote: post #97
psychometry wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://muspy.com/ is what you want

Wow, thanks, that seems to be it! Edit: doesn't seem to be actually maintained, though. Very noticeable and quite easy to fix bugs as old as 2017 still persist. But I'll surely try it anyway.

The data still gets populated, though. It's all on Github in case you want to submit a patch.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by ronjouch »

slouch wrote: post #44
ronjouch wrote: post #35

These days I find tons of new music through https://daily.bandcamp.com/ . No blinders, you'll get hip-hop, then doom metal, then Philippines traditional music. I like this much more than recommendation engines that only make little circles around what you know. And buying music on Bandcamp, musicians get a fairer share than they do on big platforms.

It's such a shame that bandcamp is the worst music service ever because they have their hearts in the right place.

What makes you say that?

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by rchaud »

clSTophEjUdRanu wrote: post #112
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…

This doesn't get me out of my bubble. I'm a huge fan of cheesy synthwave and would have never known had Trevor Something - Death Dream not been a freeleech pick on w.cd years ago. Curation + association is the key.

I'm a big Trevor Something fan as well (love that he releases an LP or EP annually), but surely you'd have noticed his material on NewRetroWave, the biggest synthwave Youtube channel.

They love TS as well, and make sure to upload his new stuff with a custom video.

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