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I've gone back to just buying music on bandcamp and using subsonic. I might not have every artist and album but it's nice to support smaller musicians and at le
by worble 3y ago
I've gone back to just buying music on bandcamp and using subsonic. I might not have every artist and album but it's nice to support smaller musicians and at least I can choose which horrible client I want to use.
- Spivak 3y agoBut those aren't even close to what Spotify provides -- my Release Radar is 6 hours which today is 121 artists, not counting collabs, that dropped new music this week. If the only time you check in on artists today is when the drop an LP then you miss like half their stuff.
- xoac 3y agoHow much of this can you realistically digest? How much of this infinite stream of music do you have a real connection to?
- Spivak 3y agoI listen to it every Friday religiously. I'm listening to it now. And if it's on my RR it's because I follow that artist and do have a connection to them and their music. I've seen almost all of them live. Do you not want to hear new music from artists you like? I feel like this is a holdover from an era where you had like 6 cds you listened to over and and over in the car or an ipod where you loaded music onto it once and then kept it for 10 years.
- xoac 3y agoI mean I was a DJ for quite a long time so listening to new music daily was like a second job. When I talked to people DJing and going through so much music the sentiment was almost always the same: going through this much music so fast changes how you listen to things and you connect less with it. Do you do other things while listening? Like programming?
- evanelias 3y agoDoes Release Radar consistently function properly for you? I follow a lot of artists, and for the past year I've found my Release Radar is always buggy in various ways. Each week the bottom ~quarter of the playlist is stuff from previous weeks, usually last week but sometimes older. Among songs that are actually new, sometimes the order of songs in the list randomly changes slightly once or twice during the week. And I've even had a few times where most of the playlist completely changed on a day other than Friday. And now the past couple weeks, my Discover Weekly has been wonky too: almost every song is only 1 to 2 minutes long, and from random no-name artists who only have songs that are 1 to 2 minutes long. I enjoy using Spotify overall, for finding new music (which I often then purchase my faves on Bandcamp or Beatport), but Spotify's bugginess is getting rather crazy-making.
- myaccountonhn 3y agoI have done the same but I use funkwhale for hosting. That way I can have with close friends who have similar music taste create a decent music library.