I am a heavy user of spotify and their "station/radio" feature. Like a song? Go to it's song-station and explorer other songs like it.
It's this kind of discovery that keeps me using Spotify.
Are there any alternatives to that?
Are there any alternatives to that?
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One episode I listened to over and over was Songs To Get Killed In The Woods To, wayback machine cached the MP3 thankfully https://web.archive.org/web/20201223182606/https://xlr8r.com...
I'm a Qobuz subscriber now but the auto playlists let me down more often than not, totally changing up the genre of whatever album just finished. Hard to beat their drm free lossless catalog tho. I think nowadays my primary method of discovering new music is Shazaming tunes in hip thrift stores whenever I visit LA or NYC
Bandcamp is definitely the best for finding completely new artists and genres though, for me at least. Something about their featured “New and Notable” posts makes me willing to just try a new genre or artist, much more readily than other services. And I strongly agree on your point about user profiles being public. The “what’s your favorite song on this album” and “why do you love this album” text fields that you can see all over are full of comments that are just wonderful.
Apple Music will also recommend songs at the bottom of your playlists that it thinks fit in, which I find is another great way to discover music.
I think the play-a-station method of music discovery has been around for a long time. If I remember correctly, even old iTunes used to have Genius(?) which played similar songs from your library.