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It truly is the golden era of music. There's always been an enormous amount of dross in music, with nuggets of greatness that have stood the test of time. There's both automated music discovery via services like Spotify, and successful hand-curated streams like https://www.thecurrent.org/playlist/the-current https://www.thecurrent.org/playlist/the-current that employ real people to do the actual digging. Criticizing "one person attempting to do all of this in a home studio" -- people have always been doing that, and sometimes being successful. Go read the history of the band Boston as an example.