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> The entire music community has been complaining about how old music gets more recommendations on streaming platforms, necessarily making it harder for new mus
by diggan 2y ago
> The entire music community has been complaining about how old music gets more recommendations on streaming platforms, necessarily making it harder for new music to break out.
Compared to what though? Compared to Limeware/Kaazaa back in the day, or compared to buying records in a store?
Personally, I find it easier than ever to find brand new music, mostly because Spotify still surfaces new things with ease for me (and always have been, since I started using it in 2008), and platforms like Bandcamp makes it trivial to find new artists that basically started uploading music yesterday.
- gosub100 2y agoOr compared to the days of radio, having labels decide what's on the mainstream and the indie college stations doing the unpaid work (and giving listeners the gift) of discovering "lost" hits.
- Blackthorn 2y agoCompared to Myspace. The difference for anyone who lived through it is night and day.
- serviceberry 2y ago> Compared to what though? Compared to Limeware/Kaazaa back in the day, or compared to buying records in a store? Compared to curation by other humans. Be it music labels, magazines, radio DJs, or a person sharing their playlist or giving you a mixtape. In this model, tastes never overlap perfectly, so you're exposed to unfamiliar music fairly regularly, often in some emotional context that makes you more likely to accept something new. Algorithms don't really do that. They could, but no one is designing them that way. If I listen predominantly to female vocalists on Spotify for a week, I'm only getting female vocalists from now on.
- esafak 2y agoI don't get that. Its recommender has been great for me. And there are lots of playlist if I want to try something completely different.