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I’ve been on a good streak lately though with some new artists that make me go “why have I never heard these before”. But on the other hand I’m still mostly stuck in mono-genre land.
Also Spotify keeps pushing these “highlights” on me as if I don’t remember what I listened to this year.
> I think a lot of people would probably look at my distaste of Spotify and recommend another, more suitable, streaming platform like Apple music or Pandora Just go to YTM? I stopped using Spotify when their client became slow and bloated. Then I went to GPM which was easy (didn't care for my library much). Then onto YTM (which in the beginning sucked), but is now close to parity with GPM. Took them a while but they…
I don't think I've ever been introduced to artists I wouldn't have listened to otherwise through Spotify. In general I find Spotify's recommendation to be slightly worse than just listening to the radio. I don't have a good alternative at the moment though. A long time ago I built a music recommendation system based on Discogs that made a vector space based on the genres and then found the most similar albums of one…
Anything that I find myself liking a lot I head out to one of the very few record stores out here and buy it on vinyl. But then, I'm old and like having things in my hands and not just streamed. I buy paper books too.
> I think a lot of people would probably look at my distaste of Spotify and recommend another, more suitable, streaming platform like Apple music or Pandora Just go to YTM? I stopped using Spotify when their client became slow and bloated. Then I went to GPM which was easy (didn't care for my library much). Then onto YTM (which in the beginning sucked), but is now close to parity with GPM. Took them a while but they…
Honestly, if you're paying for Youtube Premium, you might as well use YT Music, but it's all around worse than Spotify.
I'm currently giving Deezer a try.
I genuinly want to stop giving Spotify my money because of the increasingly horrible user experience. But the sheer investment I have there in the form of more than ten year's worth of curated lists and folders makes it damn near impossible to leave without abandoning pretty much my entire "music library" which it has become at this point.
I don't think I've ever been introduced to artists I wouldn't have listened to otherwise through Spotify. In general I find Spotify's recommendation to be slightly worse than just listening to the radio. I don't have a good alternative at the moment though. A long time ago I built a music recommendation system based on Discogs that made a vector space based on the genres and then found the most similar albums of one…
Everyone seems to hate YouTube recommendations but as someone who mostly use YouTube to listen to music their recommendations are amazing.
The only thing that's always new and recommended is the latest hiphop song that's popular right now (i.e. video posted 12 hours ago, 3M views), and it should know I don't listen to hip hop, at all.
I don't think I've ever been introduced to artists I wouldn't have listened to otherwise through Spotify. In general I find Spotify's recommendation to be slightly worse than just listening to the radio. I don't have a good alternative at the moment though. A long time ago I built a music recommendation system based on Discogs that made a vector space based on the genres and then found the most similar albums of one…
For me is the opposite, almost half the value i get from Spotify is about discovery (the other half is convenience). Specifically, I discovered amazing artists through the Discovery Weekly and the Artist's Radios. But also the "Fans also listen to" section in an artist profile. I found all sort of things, even obscure indies with a few thousands of listens and other "hidden gems". I'm really happy they now added the…
I have been looking to recreate this discovery through kindred-spirits-in-music ever since.
This is very similar to what the British comedian James Acaster does/did. He buys music off Bandcamp then puts it on his iPod. He documented it all in his second book Perfect Sound Whatever, it helped him get over a breakup and depression around 2016 if I remember right. He jokes in his book that he has an 'iPod guy' who hooks him up with the old iPods. His recommendations here: https://www.jamesacaster.com/my-music/
Wow! What a list! I'd love to see more people make lists like it. I'll have to give the book a check too, thanks for sharing!
This year I'm going to start writing out the songs.