I listen to music 3-6 hours a day and am the type of person who doesn’t enjoy hearing the same song the same day or really the day after. Sites I’ve used for discovering new music were reddit and rateyourmusic.com.

Beyond that I do use Spotify song radios, but typically the song has to be far outside my standard genres to show me new music.

Whatdo others use to discover new music?

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    1 year ago

    everynoise.com is pretty great, though it hasn’t kept up with the absolute most recent sub genres lately. Still fantastic, though. Connects with Spotify - which I use.

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    I’ve found a few decent hits from random music blogs. actually while writing this i went to one of them and now i’m listening to a Japanaese prog rock band that sings in an invented language

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    I use a combination of Spotify discover weekly playlists, related artist lists, and lately I’ve been finding a random new category that Spotify curates and then searching for playlists of the same type that are curated by users. I think I get more deep cuts that way.

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    I mainly use metal-archives and bandcamp. On metal-archives, I mainly use the similar artists feature, and sometimes search for specific genres from specific countries.

    Edit: Oh, and I totally forgot, everynoise.com is also a great resource to get surface level into new genres.

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    honestly the spotify algorithm is shockingly good at recommending me new music. it knows my taste inside and out. And i listen to almost every genre, but have my specific preferences to every genre. Been on the same account for like 10 years so spotify knows me pretty well by now

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      Do you have any advice on how to improve your recommendations? I never feel secure in what Spotify recommends me. I don’t know if part of the problem is I use it for my ‘active’ listening and my ‘passive’ background work mixes.

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      I missed so much good music because I replied on music algorithm recommendatuons, BV has been great for finding the kinds of music I like

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    Bandcamp via the Tags system can really yield some great results. It’s got a virtual feel equivalent to browsing through a physical record store.

    I basically just poke around until I find something I like then check the tags at the bottom of a release. Click the tag and then browse that for other stuff.

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      I’ve been having fun using the location tags. I like to pick a major city far away from me and see what’s popular from there

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        Oh dude you’d really like radio.garden. Let’s you browse radio stations geographically. Super fun to use