Not that it’s any better in terms of ethics or artist pay, but YouTube Music has relatively decent auto playlist generation with settings for discovery. Plus you get ad-free YouTube without having to use piped or vanced or whatever people are using these days.
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Daxtron2@startrek.website 8 months ago
Hey all, I’d like to distance myself from Spotify, but I really enjoy their discovery features. I’ve learned about a lot of bands both new and old that I wouldn’t have otherwise. Do you have any suggestions for a service that could replace this aspect of it?
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Rootiest@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah I know it’s not a popular position these days but I have been a Google Music subscriber since the early days and YT Music doesn’t disappoint when it comes to finding what you’re looking for and not having to worry about fighting Google on ad-blockers with YT is a convenient add-on.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
Bandcamp is pretty good. They do writeups that I think are written by real people. When you look at a band you like, it tells you about stuff other people who like them have. I’ve found a lot of stuff there.
It is more about buying music than renting it, however. Most albums it will ask you to buy after a certain number of plays. I think the band can configure those details
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Bandcamp was bought out by Epic Games, fired half of it’s staff, and is now owned by some private corporate music licensing company. I wouldn’t recommend supporting them anymore.
nyctre@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I find last.fm’s “similar artists” feature more accurate that Spotify’s. But that’s just for finding new stuff and tracking your history. Not really for actually playing the music. I linked it to Spotify and use them both together
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time, used to love last.fm and pandora etc
Jarix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you like modern rock, theres a free app (no ads or any bullshit either) or listen via website. Former radio DJ quit the industry and started his own online station. Im definately biased here as i used to listen to him all the time when i would drive all day long, but as its literally free and not supported by ads.
No account needed also
Anyways if you like modern rock whatwasthatradio.com
It is dedicated to only playing new music
He didnt like all the amazing music that exists to continue to go completely unnoticed by commercial radio so hes doing it himself
Hes supported by subscribers on patreon etc
If i remember correctly all songs are 36 months or newer
This is a proper SOCAN licensed service (canadian broadcasting license I think) so hes doing it proper.
www.whatwasthatradio.com
I personally have found at least a dozen new artists to listen to because of this free service
heres some of the bands he has done interviews with to give you an idea.
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Search your favourite artists. Wiki them etc. and learn about them whilst simultaneously finding where they’re members play in other bands or have other projects. Also, it can illuminate what they’re influences were/are and you can listen to that too. I find a shit-tone of new music this way.
Deezer. Interface/UX is a little jank but it’s private and discovery is good.
Radio Paradiso. Berlin based radio. Weird and wonderful.
locuester@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
How about FM radio waves?
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 8 months ago
So you can hear the same 5 songs on repeat interspersed with tons of commercials?
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Radio fucking sucks, amigo. Literally the most homogeneous playlists ever unless you are close enough to a college radio station or a major city that can support anything other than top 40 or the same 100 classic rock songs.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 8 months ago
Ah yeah I love hearing the same 30 songs over and over again with 60% ads, great idea
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is why pirating any music found on the radio will never make me feel guilty.
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 8 months ago
This seems to be the standard music streaming experience
criticon@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I discover more ads than music that way
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I use Yandex Music for discovery. For some reason, I can’t get Spotify to recommend the same amount of new stuff I like. You might need a proxy though because the content there is region-locked. Also I used both Yandex and Spotify for free, it’s just fine on desktop with Ublock Origin.
goldisgood4u@lemmings.world 8 months ago
I’ve used Spotify, Apple music, YT music and nothing beats SoundCloud stations for discovering new music based on a song.
and their “More of What you Like” playlists are just stations based on your recently most played songs and they just don’t miss.
for someone like me that has songs from a lot of different genres in my regular rotation of 10-15 songs every month or so, it’s perfect for discovering music.