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I remember in college there was a sandwich shop that was always playing amazing music, there was a tip jar and if you wanted to know what was playing you had to tip $1. Good times.
I have qualms with Spotify as well, but not sure I entirely agree with the premise of the article. It still takes effort to find good music. There's a LOT of music being produced nowadays, and wading through all of that and finding niche stuff you like can still be a "hunt" - it's just a different kind.
I think this translates to a few different mediums. I'm thinking about modern matchmaking in video games today. I used to play a game called SOCOM II back on the PS2 and it was all lobby based. You had to jump around to find the right lobby with the game mode you liked, find people to play with and build community. There was time between games for banter. Now everything is automatic and instantaneous. It has its adva…
You can also hunt via Spotify. Songs and artists can help you find curated playlists (by other artists or fans) where you discover new artists.
Everynoise.com is also a great start, but these playlists are no longer maintained.
There is also a huge audience of people who want to hear “elevator music” tuned to their activity at hand and do not care about who or what made it. Spotify obviously wants those customers. I don’t mind these people subsidising my hobby, but I hope Spotify will continue to cater to my interest too.
I don't agree. I want to be clear that I think youtube is terrible in many, many ways, but one thing I _do_ love about youtube is music discovery. Finding label channels and tracing through their artists, seeing what else pops up in my feed as a result and following those threads...finding random weird stuff with four listens posted two days ago, which then leads you to more weirdness...etc. is all very fun to me and I've discovered a ton of great music that way. There's also tons of random channels that have DJs or mixes they put out that is also a great and relatively organic way to discover new stuff (I'm always thrilled when a new Kieran Hebden set drops on The Lot Radio for one).
Maybe spotify is different, I've actually never used it, but I don't think the "Thrill of the Hunt" is dead in a general sense. And I'm kinda old, I was a music major in the 90s and at that time I was all about finding weird bootlegs and going to shows with <10 people showing up, subscribed to The Wire for a long time, and etc. There is still a ton of great new music out there and fun avenues for discovery! If anything there is more than I ever could have imagined when I was younger. People keep making great stuff.
I just had the best time migrating to Navidrome / Synfonium. I didn't think it would be as easy or as enjoyable, but it's changed the way I listen to music back to how it was -- listening to albums, not random singles. I'm happy to be free of Spotify. The fact it even works with carplay/ Android auto is remarkable.
Spotify is one of the apps I've noticed continually getting worse and more buggy over time. The Android app is very annoyingly buggy and the WebOS (LG tv) Spotify app is completely unusable at this point. Also, a bunch of (non-English) music/lyrics I listen to have recently become strongly censored.. which makes them unlistenable to me... I wonder if there is (or should be) a censorship-free, decentralized, open alte…
I love these posts from randos on hackernews. > XXXX is completely buggy and unusable Which is amusing because experience shows that XXXX is not buggy and very much usable.
This is one of the reasons I’ve gone with Apple Music. The way the app is setup, I can treat the catalog like an online store and my library like my personal CD collection. I made a self-imposed rule to respect this paradigm. When I hear about a new band or album, I go the “store”, add it to my library, and the next time I’m looking to listen to some music, I can see some the recently added list has a couple albums I…
I've been doing that since Spotify launched in the US, and I'm mystified by people somehow using it differently and letting algorithmic picks determine what they listen to.