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> The streaming platforms, for which you pay full price, don’t even let you choose the quality of the movie you want to watch. What you watch today might disapp

> The streaming platforms, for which you pay full price, don’t even let you choose the quality of the movie you want to watch. What you watch today might disappear from all platforms in two months. I have seen so many songs disappear from Spotify lately that I am considering to hoard music again. Gladly I have most of those that disappeared on my HDD anyways, since it's been mostly old songs, but yeah. Was kinda frustrating. Maybe it's the task for this winter to go through my spotify playlists and find out which music I do not own yet

anal_reactor 2y ago
How do you discover new music? That's been an issue for me, considering how I don't use Spotify.
- cpill 2y ago
  last.fm
- dailykoder 2y ago
  Sure while Spotify can be nice with that, I am an old boomer that mostly sticks to what I grew up with and I just look for new albums of known artists every now and then, but I find the real gems in things like mountainbike movies. Also gameplay movies back in the day. But yeah that ease to find new things is one positive aspect of Spotify. Also to have it everywhere available. So maybe going both ways would be the solution. Using Spotify while buying/ripping/whatever the music that I really deeply value
- mikub 2y ago
  You read forums, buy magazines, or, just buy an album because it has some badass cover. At least that's how I did it back in the days. ;)
- fsflover 2y ago
  Bandcamp.com
- SSLy 2y ago
  [redacted]'s daily and weekly top10. Last.fm, reddit, Apple Music.
- hyperG 2y ago
  I think it depends how obscure your taste is. If more open and obscure, the best way I found is to listen to streaming college radio stations and find some DJs you like on those stations. There is an effort that it takes to get on the airwaves that is not there if just anyone can play music online. The effort acts as a quality filter on the person's taste and passion. Beyond that, I always check out what Pitchfork thinks is good new music. The youtube algorithm has also recommended me some of my favorite, more obscure artists but that happens like once every 2-3 years.
- kyriakos 2y ago
  Sound cloud, youtube
- a-french-anon 2y ago
  Read MA or RYM reviews and append all the names I don't already know to a big backlog.
  - jayemar 2y ago
    Could you expand the MA and RYM acronyms for those of us less in the know?
    - dard12 2y ago
      I believe RYM is referring to Rate Your Music here.
    - a-french-anon 2y ago
      Metal Archives and Rate Your Music.
- SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
  I use Spotify for music discovery, but buy downloads (or rip CDs, or if the band only has streaming available I rip the stream since they don't want my money) and use stored music from local devices for my everyday use. Streaming services are nice for recommendations, but not great for actual listening.
- lishzen 2y ago
  pitchfork.com has RSS feeds of best new albums and best new songs
zgeor 2y ago
It's nice of Spotify to at least leave the names of the songs. Years ago I had several huge music video playlists which today stand at 80% of what they previously were.
- hmry 2y ago
  YES! It's so unbelievably annoying when websites just remove stuff from your playlists / bookmarks / whatever without telling you what was removed. For anyone stuck in this situation and willing to spend a few (many) hours to recover the titles of their YouTube playlist: On the playlist page, in the (...) menu there is a "Show unavailable videos" button. After clicking that, you can right-click all the unavailable videos and copy their URLs. Then you can either try the wayback machine, or google the video ID. Usually you will find some forum posts talking about the video and mentioning the title. Of course, it's not guaranteed that you'll find anything this way. But I have recovered multiple playlists this way.
get-logname 2y ago
This and also the increasing number of adverts/sponsored recommendations and annoying notification for stuff I don't follow.
xfz 2y ago
I've experienced this for over a decade. If I like the music I'm renting, I buy the CD and rip it to FLAC.
- tempfile 2y ago
  This is even easier if it's on Bandcamp :)

anal_reactor 2y ago

How do you discover new music? That's been an issue for me, considering how I don't use Spotify.

cpill 2y ago
last.fm
dailykoder 2y ago
Sure while Spotify can be nice with that, I am an old boomer that mostly sticks to what I grew up with and I just look for new albums of known artists every now and then, but I find the real gems in things like mountainbike movies. Also gameplay movies back in the day. But yeah that ease to find new things is one positive aspect of Spotify. Also to have it everywhere available. So maybe going both ways would be the solution. Using Spotify while buying/ripping/whatever the music that I really deeply value
mikub 2y ago
You read forums, buy magazines, or, just buy an album because it has some badass cover. At least that's how I did it back in the days. ;)
fsflover 2y ago
Bandcamp.com
SSLy 2y ago
[redacted]'s daily and weekly top10. Last.fm, reddit, Apple Music.
hyperG 2y ago
I think it depends how obscure your taste is. If more open and obscure, the best way I found is to listen to streaming college radio stations and find some DJs you like on those stations. There is an effort that it takes to get on the airwaves that is not there if just anyone can play music online. The effort acts as a quality filter on the person's taste and passion. Beyond that, I always check out what Pitchfork thinks is good new music. The youtube algorithm has also recommended me some of my favorite, more obscure artists but that happens like once every 2-3 years.
kyriakos 2y ago
Sound cloud, youtube
a-french-anon 2y ago
Read MA or RYM reviews and append all the names I don't already know to a big backlog.
- jayemar 2y ago
  Could you expand the MA and RYM acronyms for those of us less in the know?
  - dard12 2y ago
    I believe RYM is referring to Rate Your Music here.
  - a-french-anon 2y ago
    Metal Archives and Rate Your Music.
SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
I use Spotify for music discovery, but buy downloads (or rip CDs, or if the band only has streaming available I rip the stream since they don't want my money) and use stored music from local devices for my everyday use. Streaming services are nice for recommendations, but not great for actual listening.
lishzen 2y ago
pitchfork.com has RSS feeds of best new albums and best new songs

zgeor 2y ago

It's nice of Spotify to at least leave the names of the songs. Years ago I had several huge music video playlists which today stand at 80% of what they previously were.

hmry 2y ago
YES! It's so unbelievably annoying when websites just remove stuff from your playlists / bookmarks / whatever without telling you what was removed. For anyone stuck in this situation and willing to spend a few (many) hours to recover the titles of their YouTube playlist: On the playlist page, in the (...) menu there is a "Show unavailable videos" button. After clicking that, you can right-click all the unavailable videos and copy their URLs. Then you can either try the wayback machine, or google the video ID. Usually you will find some forum posts talking about the video and mentioning the title. Of course, it's not guaranteed that you'll find anything this way. But I have recovered multiple playlists this way.

get-logname 2y ago

This and also the increasing number of adverts/sponsored recommendations and annoying notification for stuff I don't follow.

xfz 2y ago

I've experienced this for over a decade. If I like the music I'm renting, I buy the CD and rip it to FLAC.

tempfile 2y ago
This is even easier if it's on Bandcamp :)