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The best ”algorithm” for discovering new music was digging through profiles on last.fm back when the social functions of the site were still active. Sure, it was a lot of manual work, but the results were amazing. It wasn't completely blind, I found that people I had high similarity with, it was more likely I'll like what they like, even across different genres. Sometimes people were nice and took the effort to recom…
The best way to discover music nowadays is RateYourMusic. I go to an album I like, read a couple reviews to find like-minded people and check out their profiles. They often have lists with their favorite albums. The album chart queries are also incredible. The site has a very detailed system of genres and descriptors so you can find exactly what you want.
simple, very little time investment required and avoids most modern fuckery
I find it funny and sad that people get so excited about those Wrapped year-end things on Spotify when these companies are basically withholding all this data all year long and then pretend like it's a special treat when they doll out a peek at it once a year. It feels to me like "dark mode" (which is a merely single color of customization for an app). We expect so little from our software and services that even thes…
Eventually the stats became live updating and a bit of fun was lost.
I miss the old last.fm. I know it's still there, but it's not the same since CBS took over and made everything rely on youtube or whatever it's doing these days.
https://listenbrainz.org/ is an open source scrobbler, with the advantage that it leverages the musicbrainz database and connects listens to artist and track IDs instead of names, avoiding duplicate confusion. You can keep last.fm and submit to both of you like.
I looked at libre.fm but I think all I ever saw was a waiting list.
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> My favorite thing about Napster and LimeWire was when you could find a song, and then BROWSE the hard drive of the person hosting that song. Soulseek lets you do this and is still going
Soulseek is still going? I discovered so many artists, international variations of albums, live sessions and bootlegs from that app, it changed my relationship with music. I have to go back and check it out.
Richard Jones is still alive and kicking https://x.com/metabrew
^ protected tweets. But he's also on Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/metabrew.com
Anyway I loved that he has reposted a post from musicbraniz https://bsky.app/profile/musicbrainz.org/post/3lnhvp23jc22l/...
The best ”algorithm” for discovering new music was digging through profiles on last.fm back when the social functions of the site were still active. Sure, it was a lot of manual work, but the results were amazing. It wasn't completely blind, I found that people I had high similarity with, it was more likely I'll like what they like, even across different genres. Sometimes people were nice and took the effort to recom…
I found so much indie electronic music I loved to listen to back then, via last fm. I don’t listen to any of it any more. Or have any interest to
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I'm still so mad they killed Google Music. I uploaded ALL my downloaded tracks & ripped music from it, then they shut it down and I lost all of it :(
It wasn't migrated to YouTube Music?
It was just such a convoluted mess. They promised you could upload all your music and it would be there forever, they said! Bastards...