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What does your process look like for discovering music on youtube and then getting that music into your personal library? If you're not discovering while you're
by bhaney 3y ago
What does your process look like for discovering music on youtube and then getting that music into your personal library? If you're not discovering while you're typically listening, then you must be setting aside some separate time for discovery, and then curating those discovered songs, acquiring their files somehow, and integrating them into your library, right?
- PaulHoule 3y agoBasically yes. If I was smart about it I'd get one of those YouTube downloader scripts and attach it to something that puts on metadata and do it all in one step. I do it in bursts and frequently it is motivated by reading something about music, then looking up the music on YouTube and listening to it there for a while before I decide something is worth putting in the library. For what it's worth I am not particularly interested in music that came out in the last year or so, not like I am fundamentally opposed to it, but given that the event horizon for decent music recordings is roughly 1965, I think there is more older music than I haven't heard yet than there is new music. Also my approach is album and discography oriented partially because I really like listening to albums and partially because it's often easy to get a whole discography. So it is not like I am keeping track of tracks I like as much as it is albums and artists that I like.
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoI do the same thing with Youtube & Spotify. Use the algorithmic feeds when I feel like listening to new music (or being notified of releases), buy downloadable versions or CDs & rip them if I like something new that showed up in the algorithm. Most of the time I listen to music from my library, but sometimes I feel like a change.