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How to Find New Music

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Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by garretthenry »

lb1lf wrote: post #25

I am in the very fortunate position that despite living way out in the boonies, I have a proper, brick-and-mortar record store of the High Fidelity kind within an hour's travel from home. Both the guys running it have an encyclopedic knowledge of a number of genres, and there's always a few customers browsing the shelves which will merrily question you about your preferences, before veering off on a tangent, getting…

100% agree. Algorithms have their place, but human curation will always have its place as well.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by troyvit »

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?

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by garretthenry »

slashblake wrote: post #27

I built https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com to help me more easily listen to bands coming in town, I know a few people here on HN enjoy using it too.

This looks amazing, I'm definitely going to use it to discover. If I would've known before writing the blog post, I would've added it :)

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by ronjouch »

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.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by slouch »

This is a terrible guide that ignores the best algorithmic recommendations that spotify provides, the "Related Artist" feature from the artist page. If you are a life long music explorer, why didn't you mention the last.fm Similar Artist feature? Concert reminder services like songkick are great for learning which bands are touring with your favorite artists, too, in addition to suggesting artists based on your current likes. This is low effort.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by sdoering »

lb1lf wrote: post #25

I am in the very fortunate position that despite living way out in the boonies, I have a proper, brick-and-mortar record store of the High Fidelity kind within an hour's travel from home. Both the guys running it have an encyclopedic knowledge of a number of genres, and there's always a few customers browsing the shelves which will merrily question you about your preferences, before veering off on a tangent, getting…

I remember in my early twenties there was a drug store with a music part in the town I lived in. The guy running that division was a DJ for different genres. And an wide ranging knowledge and thirst for new stuff. The more he got to know me the better his recommendations got. They were all on the edge and sometimes slightly over the edge.

lots of the stuff I got to know back then I still like to listen to.

I didn't have that much money to spare. Non the less he brought CD after CD to listen to on the players there. sometimes I stayed for 3 to 4 hours just enjoying the music. whenever I had some money to spare I took home a knew jewel of music.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by thatcat »

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…

The similar artist map is still around on the successor sites of WCD.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Stoids »

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 miss reading the 100 page threads on What.CD about which of the 40 different rips of the White Album was best. Alternatives have popped up, but it saddens me that we lost all of that collective comment history.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by jacobobryant »

gnoosic.com is pretty good also.

I worked full-time on algorithmic music recommendation for about 5 months last year[1] (started working on it as a side project in 2016). I've always thought that, ultimately, an algorithm should be the best--after all, you can have it use human-curated data as an input. While my algorithm isn't amazing, it works far better for me than Spotify or Pandora ever did, so I've been using it myself regularly. I pivoted to a general-purpose recommender system idea[2] last november, but I'd love to go back and work more on music later on.

(Music was just too hard to get started in--I spent far more time trying to find a way to integrate my algorithm into playback sources than actually working on the algorithm)

[1] https://lagukan.com

[2] https://findka.com

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