Having your own collection is great. But it doesn’t provide the service Spotify does (or any streaming service). 80% of the time I listen to discovery-type generated playlists. I want to find new music. This is fundamentally impossible with the music I own. This is something you can’t self host. Even if you have a vast collection of music you don’t know (by whatever means your get it), you still need the algorithms to pick the music that you’re likely to like.
I really wish I could. I self host basically everything else. Even tried some local music similarity training for “smart playlists”. It’s kinda neat at best, but no where remotely close to the music discovery of Spotify and other online services. You need the massive amounts of users to derive that data.
clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Call me old, but people should learn to discover music in different ways (friends, press, concerts, etc.) and not wait to be fed by corporations… just a thought.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Hey what’s wrong with silently listening to new releases at the record shop.
Best memories growing up we’re going to a&b sound and playing Dreamcast while my parents listened to the CDs setup around the store for demos.
I remember places having rows of stations so a bunch of people could listen to new releases at the same time.
Digital music is great but something to be said about having to actually curate your own experience
mrdown@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It is a lot more fun to discover artists yourself. Browsing a list of album covers and enjoy them, read short description of the album and artist then listen to the music. You also feel the send of fulfillement becausw the process becomes a personal adventure rather than a passive experience
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
As I said in my other reply, different people like different things. I don’t want an adventure. I want the passive experience. I do other things while listening to music (work, read, tinker, …). I almost always have some music playing, but rarely do I just listen to music (it does happen though). I’ll pick styles depending on mood or task, it’s like the rails that keep me on track while working (as an example). If I’m not listening to music, I lose focus.
I simply can’t do that with an article or other medium that requires my primary attention.
mrdown@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I am just expressing the other perspective. Not telling you to have the same
kittyjynx@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I like 1990’s Japanese ska punk and I had hit a wall finding new bands since there isn’t a huge English language community for that stuff. With spotify I found ten new bands the first day. I do try to find a way to own the music I like through Bandcamp or through the Amazon MP3 store but I don’t know of another way to discover new music as efficiently.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
See my other reply to tofu. Not the same thing. You just couldn’t do what these services do even 2 decades ago. You could discover things, but at a very different pace.
mrdown@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I don’t know about you but this is so fun for me it bring me joy and fulfillment as opposed to being fed by algorithm
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
It’s the opposite for me. I don’t want to read about music. I just want to listen to music that I don’t know yet but an likely to like. I don’t want too dig around. The algorithms you dislike do something that no article or podcast can: give me personally tailored recommendations.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The ways you mention are basically just corporations with extra steps.
hogmomma@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Streaming isn’t exclusive to the methods you mentioned. I have plenty of friends make recommendations. And I found out about one of my now-favorite bands through Rolling Stone.