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I am a total music nut. So I would certainly try it if it had a web interface. For me, the barrier to install a native app on my phone is pretty high.

Looking at the permissions this app wants makes me feel even less comfortable. Access to my camera, my mic, my contacts, my identity, the data on my sd...

One of my favorite ways to discover music is Gnoosic (https://www.gnoosic.com) where I don't have to install anything and get results right away. I found some of my all time favorite bands this way.

Any other tips by the HN crowd on how to expand ones musical horizon?

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The first thing it suggested was an artist I’ve never heard of, who I’m now completely in love with. Craziest part is the artist isn’t actually that similar to the 3 suggestions I gave it, different genre and everything.

Spotify and Apple Music (my two main sources of music) both constant suggest stuff to me I have absolutely zero interest in, almost to the point where it seems like a parody, yet this site just nailed it first go (and subsequent suggestions were really good too).

> The first thing it suggested was an artist I’ve never heard of, who I’m now completely in love with.

Are you speaking of syncc.app or gnoosic.com ?

Hey there I created Audius about 3 years ago for the same reason these guys created their app: algorighmic music recommendations get boring after a while.

I extended Audius with the Matrix chat network to chat and share music, all with YouTube/Vimeo/mp3 Urls (so it's completely free and no registration is needed, all data is stored in the borwser)

Audius is also a progressive web app so you can use it like an app if you want to.

It's also open source, and has a single HTML file that you can host on any server.

https://audius.rockdapus.org/

I made a micro social media site during the first UK lockdown which allows people to share their favourite track each week.

I thought it could be a cool way to get music recommendations from people you know. The main concept is that by limiting shares to once a week, no one person could dominate the feed.

It's called Earworms: https://earworms.club

You can search by genre tag as well: https://earworms.club/genres/alternative_hip_hop

That looks very appealing - I'm an Apple Music subscriber, so having the option to play in Apple Music alongside Spotify would be handy - is the project Open Source?

Thanks! I haven't open sourced it yet but I was planning on it. (I'll need to change some API keys first - side project!)

You're not the first, or even the second, to suggest adding Apple Music so it's definitely something I want to include.

I like to use Spinitron — https://spinitron.com to find radio stations or shows that I like. The home page is a feed sourced from a large number of community/college/non-commercial radio stations in the US, showing what tracks are being played at any given moment. One can watch tracks spill down the feed and, if you see something you like, click the link through to the station’s page on Spinitron. This lists the stations recent playlist, archived playlists, and schedule, with links to the station itself as well as links to the major music services for each track. It’s a little buggy but I’ve found it great for discovering not only new music but new curators of music (ok DJs) which is even better. And because it seems restricted to non-commercial stations (though no NPR affiliates) there are no ads to speak of.

I've also found Music Map [1] (also from Gnod) to be useful when searching for bands similar to something I already like.

[1] https://www.music-map.com/

There's this (very very old) website which makes discovery very nice, but specifically for progressive rock[0]. Maybe you can find something like that for other genres too.

0: http://www.progarchives.com/

https://everynoise.com/ was a thing for me. I opened a lot through it. And it was fun to browse through different countries as well as through different genres.

This is great! Where can I find more niche sites like this?

This gave me a remarkably good suggestion. I will certainly be looking into more of the gnod products (https://www.gnod.com/)

Hey, you should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app

Amazing, I had never heard of this before but am digging its suggestions. Thanks for bringing this into my life!

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