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What have you replaced Spotify with for music discovery? I'm a Spotify user on the fence myself

• dont__panic 4y ago
  I've been using last.fm for many years now. Hundreds of thousands of scrobbles later, it's still serving up recommendations that I'm now using to build up my personal Jellyfin library that I stream to my phone via Finamp. I use a VPN so I can always connect to my home server when I'm on the go. Spotify was a pretty convenient all-in-one service for a while. But they've fallen prey to the growth trap and dark patterns for a while now, with no signs of improving any time soon. This solution isn't quite as easy as OG Spotify... but it's free, gives me something to hack and work on, and puts me in control of my music library again. There's something very freeing about consciously thinking about my music library, instead of allowing Spotify to spoonfeed you artists that give up a share of their profits [1]. [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/02/spotify-will-now-allow-artists-and-labels-promote-tracks-in-your-recommendations/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/02/spotify-will-now-allow-art...
  • Mountain_Skies 4y ago
    Long ago the Xbox had a last.fm powered music service that gave the best recommendations. I could put it on auto play and just let last.fm pick tracks for me and I'd rarely end up skipping a song. No service since then has come close. I was really disappointed when it was shutdown and replaced with one of Microsoft's first stabs at their own music service.
• blowski 4y ago
  I've found the FT's weekly album reviews to be quite diverse. But also... just asking people!