Album Rating: 2.0

The more the merrier

... Spotify?

Reading articles or random stuff on the internet is the real way of finding new artists.

Album Rating: 5.0

The YouTube sidebar is GOAT.

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Yeah spotify is a terrible resource to find new music, ya know, it’s just a database of (basically) all music ever. I could whip that up in a weekend.

"it’s just a database of (basically) all music ever"
That's wrong and you know it, lol.

Album Rating: 4.5

Spotify has given me some incredible recs but a lotta garbage too

Nah

With Spotify the fact that you have to pay or else you can't listen to the track you want and on top of that you get random recs from some other artist (and when I tried using the app every single rec was one I already knew) that you can't skip is already bad enough for me to consider Spotify a poor place to find new music; and if you do pay for it, well, I just don't see how anyone finds new music there, maybe I just don't use it properly or something. Soulseek looks quite good but I don't use it because I'm dumb.

Being honest, the biggest problem with Spotify is that it doesn't satisfy people who listen random east european ambient music, cantopop and mandopop that wasn't even succesful in its own country, underunderground japanese noise music, african folk music that was never commercially released and you can only listen thanks to some people with a lot of free time going out of their way to record that stuff and share it on obscure music sites (like their own blogspot with 10 views), underunderunderground french black metal and british underunderunderunderground DJ Mixes from the 1990s. What is the people who listen to that stuff supposed to do with Spotify?

Yeah 10 bucks a month holy fuck gotta sell the house

I should remember that I live in Mexico. Most people around here just aren't willing to pay that, but I guess people living in, idk, America, are ok with doing it.

I have used sput for 6+ years to *find* new music and I've been super happy w/ it and continue to be. As far as listening/obtaining, both streaming (spotify) and downloading (slsk) have flaws but I'm busy af and I like having 99.9% of anything I'd ever want to hear in my entire life at my fingertips literally seconds away when I want to hear it so I'm way down w/ spotify

Soulseek and Spotify both rule for different reasons and rule even harder when used together.

I just use Spotify to listen to classical music, lol. I really don't find it very practical to find new stuff. Soulseek is also not good for finding new stuff (I guess?), but it seems quite useful to find stuff you can't download from any other place more easily. But I'm too dumb to use it.

Alexander, can you elaborate on exactly what you mean by "find new stuff"? Are you talking about discovering what you want to listen to next, or actually listening (streaming/downloading it), or both?

Dont get me wrong...if I had the time, I'd probably just slsk everything and make my own db of shit that I want to jam so I actually have it. However, like I said, being a very busy person with little free time near a personal computer, spotify just naturally won me over.

I don't use Spotify to find a lot of new music, but it's very nice knowing that once I know something exists, it's gonna be there like 90% of the time, even if I'm looking for some bullshit ass 11th century polyphonic chant or whatever

@evilford
The first. You must know about the existence of something before you listen to it, after that, you can find it in some nice place like Spotify or some random place on the Internet.