ButC wrote: > Up until 8-9 years ago I also relied on internet radio stations to > provide me with new music. But after starting using Spotify I have to > say that pretty much every new song or artist the last 6-7 years has > come from Spotifys algorithms. > > Spotify has mainly three ways that I use for finding new music: > > 1. Each Monday they present a playlist called Discover Weekly, which is > music similar to that of the music I listened to previous week. It's > definitely not perfect but I've found many new artists and songs with > it. > > 2. One can go through ones own favourite songs and in Spotify choose to > start a Radio (i.e. a playlist with similar songs based on that > particular favorite song of yours) for each and every one of those. This > is probably the way I've found the most new artists and songs. > > 3. Spotify creates about six playlists based on the songs I play the > most or like the most. They're playlists with different genres of music, > and those playlists consists of songs I already know and like, and songs > I might not have heard before. > > A fourth way of discovering "new" music I've practiced this last year or > so, is the Random Mix / Song Mix of LMS, which let's me rediscover music > I haven't listened to in years.
I think this merits a new thread - I am interested in views on this. I use Spotify, largely to listen to music before I decide whether or not to buy it (generally either download or vinyl, rarely CD). I think this remunerates the artists better than Spotify plays alone. I wouldn't choose Spotify over owning a collection, because online services may turn out to be rather ephemeral. I also like to fine tune tags to my preference. I find out about new (to me) music to check out via several source - magazines (Mojo for classic rock, Wire for the more experimental), various websites and their mailings e.g. Bandcamp, recommendations from various music stores, and of course the 'What am I listening to' thread on these forums. Occasionally Spotify suggests something interesting to me, but not often because I generally don't listen to Spotify-curated playlists. I have in the past shared Spotify playlists with friends, which is useful. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 4/pCP7.0/LMS8.1.2/Material with files on QNAP TS-251A Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 > Rega Fono Mini; Naim CD3) 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired), 1 x SqueezeAMP *Office:* LMS8.0.0 running on Raspberry Pi3; Raspberry Pi 3 player with touchscreen/piCorePlayer/IQaudIO DAC and Amp *Portable:* Raspberry Pi 3B/pCP7.0.1/LMS8.1.2/Material, files on Seagate portable drive, powered via power brick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114890 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
