I go onto bandcamp and click around randomly listening to songs. I try to not focus on overly synth-y/lofi stuff on there (which is a whole supra-genre that's o

I go onto bandcamp and click around randomly listening to songs. I try to not focus on overly synth-y/lofi stuff on there (which is a whole supra-genre that's overflowing these days).... and you find a lot of decent stuff there. Collecting up mp3s of stuff I like, sticking them on my NAS and walkman, and having it is a fun exercise, even if it's not my everyday listening collection. I do often open up a music player and listen to my MP3s pretty often, just to listen to an album I owned. I do like listening to internet radio a bit, tho honestly a lot of that is "greatest hits" stuff, so discoverability isn't what it used to be. Youtube used to be really good for discovering new music! But their algo is now "your recommendation feed is the same on every video" leading to getting Ben Eater recommendation vids after watching some video about biking down a mountain or something absurd like that. I miss real recommendation systems...