I’ve thought about doing this and the ease of music discovery is the primary reason I stick with Spotify.
The author says that with a decade of refining their music pallet they know what they want is nauseating. I’ve been at it for 2 whole decades (twice as many!!) and discover new music all the time. Sure I’ll jam to what I have here and there but then it is always back to searching.
I live the idea but it isn’t practical. I’d spend more money buying music than renting.
My wife on the other hand might be okay with 10 albums and a steady drip of lofi.
Google play music was leagues ahead of Spotify in terms of new music discovery, it showed me new things I liked almost every day. Spotify is just like “here’s another one of the songs you listened to recently in an unrelated playlist”
I’ve done it for the pride and accomplishment mostly lol I thoroughly like being able to choose what apps I use to access music.
I also bounced around from service to service, so having a nice home base is awesome, and there is a ton of music that wasn’t ever able on Spotify that I can now listen to.
Although the process is a bit hands on now, I appreciate looking through YouTube/bandcamp to deliberately listen and discover. The intention behind it really makes it feel more organic than relying on an algorithm/influencer playlists
I’ve thought about doing this and the ease of music discovery is the primary reason I stick with Spotify.
The author says that with a decade of refining their music pallet they know what they want is nauseating. I’ve been at it for 2 whole decades (twice as many!!) and discover new music all the time. Sure I’ll jam to what I have here and there but then it is always back to searching.
I live the idea but it isn’t practical. I’d spend more money buying music than renting.
My wife on the other hand might be okay with 10 albums and a steady drip of lofi.
Google play music was leagues ahead of Spotify in terms of new music discovery, it showed me new things I liked almost every day. Spotify is just like “here’s another one of the songs you listened to recently in an unrelated playlist”
I still miss it 😞
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I’ve done it for the pride and accomplishment mostly lol I thoroughly like being able to choose what apps I use to access music.
I also bounced around from service to service, so having a nice home base is awesome, and there is a ton of music that wasn’t ever able on Spotify that I can now listen to.
Although the process is a bit hands on now, I appreciate looking through YouTube/bandcamp to deliberately listen and discover. The intention behind it really makes it feel more organic than relying on an algorithm/influencer playlists