Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by mattdennewitz » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

Boomkat’s new/rec’d filters, Bandcamp, Resident Advisor, Aquarium Drunkard

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by eg312 » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

On r/listentothis - I made a browser extension that highlights my favorite genres https://github.com/alexadam/ListenToThis-Highlight, but I have to update it because it doesn't work with the new reddit changes

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by sfrechtling » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

https://hypem.com/ - its a website that aggregates new music from music blogs.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by ajflores1604 » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:42 PM UTC

SoundCloud is still my go to. Repost feed is a bunch of noise, so typically I find an artist I like and go thru his "likes" and "comment" feed to explore from there.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by anotheryou » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

If you use spotify and like skipping through tracks and albums this is amazing:

https://discoverquickly.com/

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by frereubu » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

BjoernKW wrote: post #18

Spotify. Their “Discover more artists.” / “Fans also like.” feature has provided me with quite a few interesting bands I didn’t know before. Their curated genre playlists are fantastic as well. I mostly listen to progressive metal / progressive rock and occasionally some electronic music, too. Their algorithms and curated content work well even for those not-exactly-mainstream genres.

That hardly ever works for me. It's either "here's another artist that's like these ones, only more mediocre" or completely crazy ones, like a playlist of the album Ilana (The Creator) by Mdou Moctar, a Berber electric guitarist, where Spotify recommendations are all for Tyler The Creator.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by duiker101 » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

joseph wrote: post #11

YouTube with auto play turned on. Play one song you like, and more of the same genre will usually follow. YouTube has a lot of good music that isn’t available on music sites such as Spotify.

Seconded. I really like the auto generated playlists, all music that I like + each once in a while a new similar song that sometimes I don't even notice until I think to myself "hey what was that nice song?".

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by sachdevap » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

joseph wrote: post #11

YouTube with auto play turned on. Play one song you like, and more of the same genre will usually follow. YouTube has a lot of good music that isn’t available on music sites such as Spotify.

Youtube runs into islands. After a point, you are stuck in some domain of music and music starts repeating. Next time I sample a song, it very quickly progresses to songs I know and I'm back in that same island.

In my opinion, it needs a "discover" setting in autoplay where it amps up discovery and reduces chances of reaching songs I know.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by laser » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC

Not what it once was, but 8tracks still has lots of good genre-tagged playlists: https://8tracks.com/

Also Spotify and YouTube.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

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Post by intopieces » Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

Redacted.ch - lots of hand curated collages.