I’ve been looking for a way to discover new music. Spotify used to be quite good, but now I feel like 10% of the stuff it recommends me is AI slop.

How do you navigate the music-scape?

  • msrb711@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Oh wow, that’s something that’s been bothering me lately a lot. Not just avoiding Ai generated music but developing my own musical tastes and not having the algorythm-served taste that I mistook for my own.

    Here’s what I have learned so far:

    • I have switched from listening music on youtube to listening music on my Digital Audio Player aka good old mp3. It forces you to put your own music there instead of just letting it play.

    • I have installed the RSS reader and follow many German and English music magazine/websites and look there for what I could like

    • I have also started asking other people like friends and colleauges for recommendations. I have received many good recommendations, but I don’t have to like everything.

    I’m fully aware that it’s not a great solution, because it’s a technological step back instead of evolution, but the way music on youtube with ads worked lately has really started to annoy me.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      21 hours ago

      Man I wish others would wake up as you have. People have gotten so damn lazy and stupid its hard to converse with them anymore. They want brainless algorithm feeds.

      • msrb711@feddit.org
        3·
        20 hours ago

        Exactly that! I have noticed the same phenomena, and it annoyed the hell out of me. All the music exists to please the algorythm.

        But more than that I noticed it on myself.

        I actually googled it, and that’s how I came across the book “Filterworld” that goes into it even further. And yes, all we’re all exposed to is the same crap that the algorythm likes, so our tastes get narrower and narrower to the same 12 songs.

        There’s an amazing quote by John Waters: “If 8 million people like it, then it’s probbably not good”

    • elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      17 hours ago

      I feel you, I’ve been wanting to do the same. For now, I’m building up a library that I like virtually in Qobuz and plexamp. Maybe one day I’ll get my self an old ipod or something.