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But how do you find new songs for you to put on your playlists? That’s why SomaFM and online stations like KCRW are so valuable. They’re ways to introduce new music and even new styles of music to the listeners.
Isn't that what recommender systems are for? /scnr
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> SomeFM is such a rarity these days, a reminder of how we believed the Internet was going to be. Let me start out by saying that SomaFM is great. But when I started listening to SomaFM (nearly 20 years ago), I never imagined that for only $10/month I'd be able to listen to (essentially) any song whenever I wanted. That's amazing and so much more valuable (to me) than what Soma offers.
But how do you find new songs for you to put on your playlists? That’s why SomaFM and online stations like KCRW are so valuable. They’re ways to introduce new music and even new styles of music to the listeners.
Online, of course, SomaFM has the best streams.
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Did you mean this site? It has some pretty great content. https://musicforprogramming.net/one
That is cool! But no, Music for Hackers was a great combo of ambient/underground music overlaid with old movie audio samples and other stuff. Played from maybe 2000-2008 or something? Can't remember when it died. https://web.archive.org/web/20010402042427/http://musicforha...
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To each their own, I guess. I also pay for Apple Music and have access to all that music, but there is no substitute for curation with a sense of taste and musical direction. For me, having access to all the music in the world is only marginally better than what I had before when buying CDs (or records even); I don't listen to more music than before. What I really love, instead, is being introduced to a new track tha…
To be honest, Pandora has served that role for me over the years. I am always amazed to look back at my Pandora station history to see how it has evolved into different streams/genres, all stimulated from hearing new music through a Pandora channel, and then starting a new station after I liked it. This has created a web of new music I wouldn't have sought out otherwise. Obviously, I do think that a human DJ may perf…
I discovered a ton of fantastic music video Music Genome Project before the buy out, on some wonderful slick visualizations. The ability to transition this way & that around some base of music, to have a central idea & to be able to explore outwards, then come back, & transit out to another nearby genre, before coming back again... deeply compelling. MGP was great at broadening my listening horizons.
By contrast, it feels like most music services very quickly are like, "if you like this artist then you'll definitely like this ultra-popular heavily-played artist!" You're like 2 hops away from top 100 music, & they'll actively try to push you into the popular music. Please, I'd just listen to the radio if I wanted to be bored to death with pop music. Switch it up!
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To each their own, I guess. I also pay for Apple Music and have access to all that music, but there is no substitute for curation with a sense of taste and musical direction. For me, having access to all the music in the world is only marginally better than what I had before when buying CDs (or records even); I don't listen to more music than before. What I really love, instead, is being introduced to a new track tha…
To be honest, Pandora has served that role for me over the years. I am always amazed to look back at my Pandora station history to see how it has evolved into different streams/genres, all stimulated from hearing new music through a Pandora channel, and then starting a new station after I liked it. This has created a web of new music I wouldn't have sought out otherwise. Obviously, I do think that a human DJ may perf…
Create a station for Pixies. Some Bowie song plays. Ok that’s cool.
Create a station for Velvet Underground. Same Bowie song plays. Ok. I guess that makes sense.
Create a station for Warren Zevon. Same goddamned Bowie song plays!
I still listen to SomaFM on the Logitech squeezeboxes littered around my house. My streaming music experience is stalled out in 2005, but I'm still blown away by how awesome it is. I'm grateful for SomaFM.
I discovered so much beautiful ambient music back in the early/mid 2000s.
I always donate to Soma too, but it is nice that once curated, you can often also enjoy, export, or transfer artist tracks you love to on demand services using Datasette or otherwise: `/Users/{USER}/Library/Containers/com.somafm.somafmmac/Data/Library/Application\ Support/SomaFM/SomaFM.sqlite3.db` or `/Users/{USER}/Library/Containers/SomaFM/Data/Library/Application\ Support/SomaFM/SomaFM.sqlite3.db`
This and Digitally Imported has gotten me through a lot