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Veronica Explains why she doesn't stream (from Netflix etc) #algorithmic_helplessness_sucks
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How would I find new music?
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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Used to be we would share mixtapes.. I really miss that. It was an intimate social interaction that we've entirely lost with modern streaming.
Yeah I share the sentiment, but I remember finding the songs for mixtapes on... the radio, where I didn't really have a say on what's playing. Algorithms can be a force for good sometimes.
but I remember finding the songs for mixtapes on… the radio
Back in the day, disk jockies would announce 'Alright, get your cassettes out, we're going to play the entire Led Zep - Kashmir LP, usually late at night.
Used to be that disk jockeys also got to pick what they played to an extent. Now it's all just predetermined lists nationwide brought to you by iHeartRadio. But yeah. Crazy to think how quickly things changed.
True. Most radio stations now get their playlists from corporate, like Clear Channel. So, both the radio station and the music industry are in cahoots. A pay to play scenario. Gone are the days of submitting an LP to a radio station for play consideration.
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True. I remember the days of mixtapes, and then the advent of cd collections in your car of all the bootleg 'mix tapes'. However, I still hold that if it weren't for Shawn Fanning, among others, pushing the envelope, the music scene online would be quite different than it is now. Technology is like that....double edged sword and all that.
Aside from similar artists, I scrobble to Listenbrainz, which gives recommendations from similar artists and similar listeners.
Indeed! I lean heavily on similar users to me, finding unknown gems frequently!
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Bandcamp? Listenbrainz? Last.fm?
Not by reading pitchfork or rolling stone. Those are only for people who hate music.
Back in the aughts I would find bands because they were an opener for another band I was seeing.
I saw Charley Crockett last summer and a guy named Drayton Farley opened for him. I'm not a huge Drayton Farley fan.
I saw Joshua Ray Walker open for Marcus King and didn't even like his show but looked him up and found his recorded work to be incredible, THEN he found out he had cancer and that was part of why the live show was weak, nothing to do with his music, and says he is recovering now, but I felt so uncharitable thinking the show sucked when he was dealing with something so awful.
But anyway - I do use streaming but like you find bands other ways, opening acts, radio, sometimes Brooklyn Vegan, that site posts about bands I've never heard of, I listen and find stuff I like (and a lot I don't).
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I've been meeting my music discovery needs with a combination of community radio and bandcamp - plus just talking to friends, though your mileage may vary depending on your friends' taste.
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Netlix does livestreams for camgirls now?