I recently made a post asking about getting spotify cheaper via vpn.
My question to everyone: how do you decide what to download?
Do you just grab everything, do you use last fm, do you erase music that you never listen to?
I just set up lidarr with all artists I like listening to and tell it to download everything they’ve made. That’s how I have about 700gb of flac files
If i like it.
When I buy something, I add it to my library. If I need or want to listen to something in more narrow a category, that’s what playlists & metadata are for.
For example, if I just want to listen to songs by Miracle of Sound, I go to Miracle of Sound in my music player app and click play or shuffle.
If I want to play a particular playlist that I’ve made, I just go to the Playlists tab and select which one I want.
The interface of course varies with the app.
+1 on Vinyl music player
afa music collection, I slowly shift things from folder to folder where I gradually cull tracks which I decide I no longer need to hear. I curate rather than hoard (although I see long term value in others opting to keep everything for the sake of all; so ‘hoard’ is not intended to judge those who do in this instance).
To find new music, I lean on Bandcamp. ofc they’re trying to sell the artist on the platform; but the blogs are often quite good, steering me to stuff I would’ve unlikely discovered on my own. If I identify a new genre that I’ve gravitated towards, I read up on it, e.g. on Wikipedia, to find other artists emblematic of the style
Yeah, Vinyl Music Player is awesome. Been using it for a a couple years now, and before that I used the app it was forked from (I can’t remember the name).
And yeah Bandcamp is fantastic! I use it all the time to discover artists I’d never have known about otherwise. :)
If I hear a song and like it, that works, I’mma download it since shitty rural internet, I may not be able to listen to that song on demand.
What a weird question. I download music I like. Sometimes I buy stuff on Bandcamp or download from YT. I don’t use Spotify and I’m an album/artist listener. Am I missing something here? Do people not have personal music libraries any more? Do people now just listen to whatever bullshit Spotify randomly plays? If so, that’s sad.
For a while, it was noted that the “Hip Hop Caviar” playlist had a direct and noticeable affect on single/album sales and streams on other platforms. So yeah kinda, although people are still interested in owning the music they like, but a not-insignificant portion of humans don’t care either way.
Google Play Music hooked me by letting me upload my entire library. I used Songza to discover new music (playlists curated by real humans).
Google bought Songza and shut it down. Raised the price of Google Music multiple times, forced me over to YouTube Premium, raised the price again multiple times and got rid of everything that made the service appealing.
I’ve been in music limbo since I dropped it entirely and yeah it’s kind of sad.
Man, songza was so great. It was my default music app 11 years ago lol
I read reviews from some music review websites. I also get recommendations from friends. Occasionally, I might go shopping for new music on youtube
I highly recommend Hype Machine for properly new and sometimes unexpected music. Downside is that you need to sort through some stuff you might not enjoy but upside is pretty solid when you find a new artist! More organic than any of the prediction-based discovery apps.
Download everything that would upset you if it were no longer available forever starting tomorrow.
If I find something and I don’t have it, yet, I download it.
“Now that’s what I call music” I’m embarrassed to say, I use those volumes a lot to keep in touch with younger generations, new music. Also, among the more popular torrents generally, so download fast.
I purposely went out and found every super adult and suggestive grunge song they covered with Kidz Bop because it’s hilarious hearing little kids singing Nirvana and Bush songs
Dunno why, but your comment reminded of this:
That was some fire 🔥 🤣
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/2oRlBmwKzy4?si=NIg2ELZBkRCm_HzO
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
You’d probably like Richard Cheese (vulgar rap and rock done as vegas style lounge music).
For less vulgar, but still fun genre switch up, Paul Anka’s album Rock Swings is nice. Similarly there’s Pat Boone’s album In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Paul Anka’s album Rock Swings is nice
Pat Boone’s album In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Baba Brinkman does rap music about science, evolution.
I love Dick Cheese ever since Dawn of the Dead used his version of Disturbed’s Down With the Sickness 😁
Like other people, whole discographies. Artist URL straight into deemix and let it do it’s thing.
For finding new music, I mostly rely on radiostations such as Kerrang! and YouTube subscriptions or recommendations.
MP3 320 is what I go for, I don’t have the equipment to benefit from FLAC.
I set and forget too, never delete. You never know when it’ll become impossible to get that data back if you want it.
You should check out last.fm (or musicbrainz, which I prefer since its open source). You connect your apps to it (Plex, tidal, Spotify, etc), they send over songs as you listen to them, you can rank them as love or hate (and some other stuff) and they curate playlists and artists that they think you’ll like based on your listening habits
Usually go for More obscure rare stuff like video game sound tacks and underground lesser known artists that I find. Eventually, the top ones that pique my interest I will end up buying physical copies or purchased digital files because I wanna show My support.
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I follow YT accounts that post music that I’m interested in such as Vapor Memory or Cryo Chamber. I’m also on the mailing lists of several artists on Bandcamp so I get notified of new releases. I ask friends for recommendations, I ask on forums, other places. Really not that hard.
https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts/tree/main/lidarr downloads automatically. I don’t really decide. I add artists when I see one missing.
It’s more important to contribute to musicbrainz than to my library. If musicbrainz has it, I can dosnload it, if not, I can’t download it either.
So far I really haven’t had musicbrainz be missing any artists or songs, idk if its different if you listen to indie or niche music though
