g349 wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:32 pm
Hey! First post here.
How do you find new music after switching away from streaming services like Spotify?
I’m looking to get a modded Ipod classic to transition away from music streaming. But since I’ve been using Spotify all my life, I haven’t really developed the skill of finding new music.
Thanks for your advice!
That’s a good question to be honest. I’ve never developed a penchant for Spotify surprisingly. Usually I find music by looking up genres that interest me and seeing what YouTube brings me. Sometimes I use SoundHound if I hear something in the wild.
I did find a band recently because someone was wearing a shirt that intrigued me lol.
I ask for reccomindation my internet friends, or don't ask and they just reccomend stuff to me.
I'm in a metal fans discord server, in wich i ask for reccomendations.
I have a RYM account and rate some stuff, there is auto reccomendations, wich altho could be useful i rarely use.
Mainly i use charts and select genres i want and just go throug them and pick albums that i like for some reasons, be it a cool cover or it has genre or multiple genres that i'm insterested in. Also i sometimes go through my friends ratings to see albums they highly rated, and see if there is any that i'd like to check. (The friends are from the same discord server)
Also i have last.fm wich has reccomendations but i don't use them now, nor did i use them much in the past but that could be an option, if you are fine with sharing your listening data there.
