my music life is in shambles

[owl]

ever since I cancelled spotify I have been adrift in my musical life. my intent was to return to music blogs for discovery and to buying music (bandcamp etc.) but I haven't put in the effort to find blogs yet and I have unfortunately fallen into using Apple Music (which comes free with my iCloud subscription thing for my phone) and it is infuriatingly awful to navigate

like iTunes was crusty software and I would never have imagined missing it but.... :(

[vilmibm]

if you have yt premium i recommend using yt and yt music for discovery...i manually take the findings over to bandcamp to buy stuff. i flop between yt and bandcamp to listen (depending on whether i want to find new stuff or revisit old stuff).

[kringle]

my go to way for finding music besides the default youtube algorithm is "rate your music" the default album rec feature is pretty cool, and people will make lists of similar stuff.

browsing the yearly top 100 albums is also fun

[momf]

RYM and last.fm are good resources! I also generally like finding "mixtapes" on youtube based on specific themes. They can sometimes lead you astray (especially recently with the rise of AI music) but when you find a good one you're basically guaranteed to get some bangers. One of my faves has 50k views and it's led me to download basically the entire thing as separate downloads.

Also, yeah, apple music sucks. When you don't have a subscription and you turn all the apple music-esque features off (at least on MacOS) it's bearable, but without that it's basically useless.

[vilmibm]

I found both Zorrovian and TKDPLL through yt, two current drum n bass musicians i reallllly like. have since bought their stuff on bandcamp but at least for zorrovian his DJ mixes on YT are awesome and i keep going back.

[curio]

One of the projects I want to make is a what.cd collage site. That was the absolute best way to find music. RYM lists is basically the feature, but nobody uses it the same way, they just do “listened” “want to listen”, rare to find vibes based curation. That said if you find the right kind of person on RYM with good lists you can really get cooking.

The other thought I have is about music digestion, in cd and mp3 era my music was limited to what i chose to burn/upload to player, and I’d listen multiple times to everything. Sometimes would skip through things I didn’t like, but having limitations made it feel so much more intentional. I’ve tried recreating this with streaming services w monthly/yearly playlists or whatever, but it always falls apart. Apple Music is at least MUCH better than Spotify at this point, Spotify will do ANYTHING to keep you from listening to anything other than their payola playlists and AI curated crap. They have a huge amount of business around pay to play to get higher priority in those “radio” playlists.

[owl]

if you have yt premium i recommend using yt and yt music for discovery...i manually take the findings over to bandcamp to buy stuff. i flop between yt and bandcamp to listen (depending on whether i want to find new stuff or revisit old stuff).

hmm... i've never tried the separate music app, but i've used regular YouTube to listen to playlists and albums, usually citypop. i've always hated that it pollutes my video history though, and spiritually feel opposed to a video app being used for music even though that's stupid and irrational

perhaps i will give music YouTube a try

[owl]

my go to way for finding music besides the default youtube algorithm is "rate your music" the default album rec feature is pretty cool, and people will make lists of similar stuff.

browsing the yearly top 100 albums is also fun

ahhh interesting https://rateyourmusic.com/

i've never heard of this! will check it out ty <3

[owl]

The other thought I have is about music digestion, in cd and mp3 era my music was limited to what i chose to burn/upload to player, and I’d listen multiple times to everything. Sometimes would skip through things I didn’t like, but having limitations made it feel so much more intentional. I’ve tried recreating this with streaming services w monthly/yearly playlists or whatever, but it always falls apart. Apple Music is at least MUCH better than Spotify at this point, Spotify will do ANYTHING to keep you from listening to anything other than their payola playlists and AI curated crap. They have a huge amount of business around pay to play to get higher priority in those “radio” playlists.

interesting, the scarcity of space on a CD-based playlist is not something i had necessarily considered in a positive light, but i can see the principle of creative constraint being present there.

for a decade+ i made monthly playlists on Spotify that were just any song i liked that month, it let me time travel through history to a particular time/place. but i never kept any kind of limit on it. might be a fun project to export those playlists, then re-create them all with a 12 track limit "best of may 2020" etc.

[vilmibm]

if you have yt premium i recommend using yt and yt music for discovery...i manually take the findings over to bandcamp to buy stuff. i flop between yt and bandcamp to listen (depending on whether i want to find new stuff or revisit old stuff).

hmm... i've never tried the separate music app, but i've used regular YouTube to listen to playlists and albums, usually citypop. i've always hated that it pollutes my video history though, and spiritually feel opposed to a video app being used for music even though that's stupid and irrational

perhaps i will give music YouTube a try

a nice thing in yt music is you can invert this: it can play videos and give you just audio. so i "favorite" yt videos from within yt music and they just become tracks. it's a surprisingly consumer friendly feature in a consumer hostile world.