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  • I am still riding the MP3 train. Music from indies and smaller bands I buy on Bandcamp or directly from the artist. Bigger bands from larger labels and really obscure stuff I get from Soulseek.

    Discovering music got more difficult after leaving Reddit, I lurked on a lot of genre subs. Now I mostly find new stuff through friends or Youtube recommendations.

  • Mostly YouTube recommendations and long compilation videos people have posted to YouTube.

  • Mostly through friends, Bandcamp, sometimes BBC Radio 6. And catching random bands at festivals and liking them.

  • Youtube.

    I realised a few years back that my music tastes had stagnated, that I hadn't liked any new bands in... too many years, and that I was on the way to becoming to be a stuck-in-the-past old fart.

    So I nuked my youtube data to glass and started again from scratch with The Technique.

    Open all the interesting-looking music in new tabs, don't-recommend-channel annoying crap, especially reaction videos. Flick through each tab, like and add to genre playlists anything cool, and open a bunch of tabs from the recommendations on that page. If I get three solid bangers from an artist, subscribe. Go with original artists rather than reposts where possible.

    Rinse and repeat.

    If the algorithm starts getting stale, browse and listen through playlists I want to hear more of (often using a third-party shuffle site), to dredge up the silt.

    I don't generally listen to much of a song while browsing - you can tell from a handful of samples if it's for you or not, and moving on quickly stops it from getting tedious.

    I have found and enjoyed vastly more new music in the last few years than I did in the two decades before that. It's awesome.

    • Very neat! I occsionally find interesting music on YouTube, but you seem to have a whole method down. I'll have to try this out sometime.

  • A mix of Spotify (I have a premium account there), and my own collection of CDs which I have ripped and can access via Jellyfin for higher audio quality.

  • I feel like I'm out of the norm for listening to music these days, especially with the influence of tiktok on music, as I almost never listen to individual songs or playlists. I only ever listen to entire albums, one at a time. I have a massive amount of music that I'm interested in, and each day I just pick an album that I feel like listening to. For discovering music, I have three main sources; two friends who share similar music interests; youtube recommendations, and songs I just hear and then think about some time later.

  • How do you listen to music?

    I use RiMusic. It's a YT Music fronted, look it up on F-Droid.

    How do you discover music?

    • Various films (especially James Gunn's)
    • Wikipedia
    • YT Music "For you" section and "Radio" feature

  • YT Music. For new stuff... IDK. Osmosis? I mostly listen to 80s/90s stations on the radio.

  • I rarely discover anything new, but I'm currently in the process of getting my entire CD and vinyl collection onto Plex - so in a way I'm rediscovering music that I liked years ago but haven't heard in ages, especially stuff that wasn't available on any streaming platforms.

    It's a slow process though, especially the vinyl - I've just about finished the As, but that's one of the smallest sections! Fun though :-)

  • Listen: FLAC files on my android phone using Foobar2000. Or for serious listening, FLAC files on an Astell & Kern with nice headphones.

    Discover: Friends, family, Bandcamp. Bandcamp is great because the bands have the option to recommend their own favourites, and if they don't, Bandcamp does the "other supporters of this band listen to this" thing. Bandcamp collections are public, so find out who paid money for an album you like and see what else they bought.

    And now for the weird one: Goodwill. Not just browsing used CDs for treasures, but listen to their overhead music (especially around Halloween). There's a surprisingly good mix of random stuff playing. I've Shazam-ed more music there than anywhere else.

  • virtually crate digging lists in rateyourmusic, SoundCloud playlist, hours long mix videos on YouTube. if I feel in the mood for a certain genre I just do search for the aforementioned, download the whole albums if I like one song, and let it shuffle on musicbee.

  • Used to use Spotify pretty much exclusively, and by now their algorithm is pretty good at giving me songs I like. However, Spotify as a company sucks, and also spotify's shuffle is shit (the magic shuffle or whatever they call it is even worse IMO).

    Nowadays I mostly listen to mixes on YouTube and internet radio for discovering music, but I also find the occasional song on reddit. When I like something I buy it on bandcamp to support the artists I listen to.

  • For listening, it's either on Auxio on my phone (files on device over streaming), a few yt playlists that have some of my favorite songs (some downloaded, some not). That, or I have a few songs on NewPipe history that aren't saved anywhere else.

    On my desktop, I use either Strawberry Music Player for my audio files and VLC for CDs (I have less than 10, but that's besides the point). Some of those CDs for some reason will just shut off after a few minutes into certain songs if I try to play it on the '92 Sony CDMan. I think it's just an issue with the CDs more than the CD player itself.

    As for how I discover new music, it's usually from yt recommendations based on what I listen to, whatever catches my eyes. That or maybe it's music I find on OpenGameArt or maybe I'm looking up something like a certain vocaloid song on VocaDB or yt or on rare occasion NicoVideo and finding a cover of it or another song from the original producer.

    Edit: Sony Discman, not CdMan

  • I used to use Spotify out of laziness, after a recent price hike I switched to local mp3 playback, I'm discovering music through radio, there's always something playing at work, at home, in a car, trying to diversify stations I hear, sometimes social media pops a new song in my ear

  • I make my own playlists based on checking out similar artists using Google searches of "artists like x" format and listen pretty much exclusively through those playlist as a quick collection of songs that I like, the playlists range from 2-50 hours and are either based on mood, genre or personal life events, they are ordered to preserve both the order in which I discovered the music but also so that they flow well from one song to another.

    I only ever really listen on single song repeat mode, when I'm bored of the song I pick out another one, but I'll listen to the playlist as a whole to make sure it flows right.

    I have a large offline collection but I've been mostly using Spotify Premium these past 6 years, the recommendations it gives at the bottom of playlists are sometimes also utilized.

    I mostly listen to music at my desk on my desktop through my Beyer DT1990 with an EQ for flat frequency response or my nice wired T2 IEMs through my phone.

    Sometimes I'll check out something on SoundCloud or Spotify suggestions when I post my own music to both to see what's considered related out of curiousity but it's mostly garbage, my own music included, though sometimes I stumble on something interesting from an artist who's main similarity is <10 monthly listeners.

    I feel like apart from my S.O. in some aspects, I've never met anyone who interacts with music in this way, people maybe make a workout playlist at most or listen to other people's or listen only to albums haha 😂

  • I watch music reaction youtubers. They showcase a large amount of new music in a short amount of time and are kind of like DJs where they preselect good stuff already.

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