Call me basic, but I have no shortage of new music from Spotify and YouTube. Spotify recommendations plus shared playlists from friends. There are a handful of YT channels that host pretty consistent quality musicians, like NPR Tiny Desk, KEXP, Colors Studios, Zildjian Live.
I use rateyourmusic.com to research a genre/artist/ album and then follow where it leads me. It’s amazing how much music is outside the algorithms, and then you get to find them in a differ context too.
Interesting! I’ve only used rateyourmusic for music rating, I didn’t know you could use it for discovery as well.
I downloaded what I liked. Now I am stuck with them
I stream online radio while commuting.
It’s a great way of discovering what people in other countries listen to or what is happening in certain genres etc.
The small online stations are better than ordinary radio because they usually don’t have commercials and no need to attract large numbers of listeners so they don’t always play the most popular garbage over and over.
It’s as if removing all the commercial aspects of radio makes better radio.
Shoutcast?
I use Radiodroid. Works fine with Bluetooth, but not android auto.
I may sound old, but I still use Pandora and it has been one of my best avenues for new music and artists for the last 15 years I’ve had my account. It knows my tastes very well at this point and the recommendations are almost always spot on.
Mostly YouTube recommendations and long compilation videos people have posted to YouTube.
KEXP on YouTube. Best radio
Mostly through friends, Bandcamp, sometimes BBC Radio 6. And catching random bands at festivals and liking them.
Spotify is still good to me with recommendations based on what I have previously liked.
But also a lot of video memes will have bangers I seek out.
A mix of Spotify (I have a premium account there), and my own collection of CDs which I have ripped and can access via Jellyfin for higher audio quality.
Listen? Stream my own collection from media server.
Discover? I asked friends and relatives to send me mix CDs instead of presents. I listen to broadcast radio when I rent a car and sometimes at home; Chirp, the Chicago Independent Radio Project is especially nice because they don’t have ads and DO have personality. Every so often I punch a few songs into a new Pandora station and spin the wheel. I snoop my kid’s Spotify account to make sure that what they’re listening to is appropriate (has to have a little talk when I found some ICP about misogyny, for example) and to their mortification shamelessly take whatever I like.
I have a Spotify playlist consisting of songs to download and add to the media server; that represents my “new music” since I paused buying it during the pandemic belt-tightening. It’s over two days long. But with Google Play Music dead, I don’t even know where to buy MP3s these days.
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I’m a Double J fan, going to have to look into the other ones you’ve listed. Thanks!
yt music does all good and also friends
Personal recommendations. Sometimes I take a chance on random artists that I see on Bandcamp. Music/artists from TV shows and movies. Music I hear when out and about, Shazam is a wonderful app for identifying tracks.
