I want to get off spotify, but I want a way to discover new music, and be notified of new music from bands I listen to. I don’t want ads, and I’m fine with piracy so long it is a relatively painless experience. Something like stremio but for music.
My dream service would be one that could recommend music based on a given song, and provide details about the artist and things. And even better version would have an API I could tap into so I could connect the service to music assistant. Hell I’ll make a (mostly) locally hosted version of the spotify dj if I can.
one more olde way if you listen to out there stuff, is to go by producers/small labels/studios names of bands you already like and quickly checking bandcamp of other projects by them. Doesn’t work with popular music, works fine-ish with indies/small bands (now studios tell you the least, but producers/labels sometimes have fairly obvious tone) *(fine-ish in that you find some gems with 5-50% chance, depending on strength of producer/label niche, which have like 1-30k views on youtube, so that you make those bands much happier than getting ai ambient thingies/or bigger labels)
Plus there is something very cute and real about small labels sites, like we sold 500 vinyls woohoo posts, bands obviously post this as well, but you have to find the damned things and often they only do social networks
This works great for jazz.
It’s works great for rock and synth as well, obviously i miss some stuff which is self published or big, and only algos will get there, but getting a lot of small bands for algos gives you such rich choice, when (i think) with bigger bands you get like normalized average taste with random quirks thrown in