Anime! Anime is to Japanese music now (really, since Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online blew up in 2013) what MTV was to western music in the 1980s. When I hear an opening or ending I like, I Shazam it and add it to a Japanese playlist I have, and if I really like it, I’ll explore other songs by the artist or band.
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I tend to take a playlist of songs I enjoy and enable the radio feature. It keeps a healthy mix of things I’m already comfortable with and stuff that’s in the same ballpark. I’m pretty settled into my listening taste, so I rarely go for much outside that. Other than that, it’s direct friend recommendations.
I want to purge Spotify from my life, but it does a lot to turn me onto music.
First I start a playlist with a general vibe I’m looking for, then either go to playlist radio and add tracks I like that come up, or scroll down to suggested tracks and start adding them from there.
I also have a special playlist where every time I hear a tune and go “damn, that’s good”, regardless of genre, it gets added there. The suggested stuff for that one is pretty solid.
The custom auto-generated Discover Weekly and Release Radar playlists are really good for surprises too. And other people’s playlists can be really great.
For electronic music, I have a di.fm subscription, and listen to that a lot. Plenty of great stuff has come to me via Shazam from there
I ditched YouTube Music and spent two weeks downloading all the albums I only had on there to my old iTunes folder which I stopped updating in 2018.
Now I can expand all the individual artist folders in Mac OS' file browser to give me list of every album in my library, copy and paste that into an LLM (Deepseek in my case) and ask it for analysis and recommendation based on my taste.
It works incredibly well and lets me ask for specific recommendations for whatever I'm in the mood for. Same with movies. 10/10.
Spotify recommendations.
YouTube still works like that. I get maybe one or two AI recommendations a month and just click the "don't show me this crap" button
I tell Claude about what I like and why I like it. Then I tell it about what I don't like and why I don't like it. I ask for for recommendations based on those two and try the suggestions. I then refine with feedback and keep doing it.
I know AI is terrible and the end of the world, but I am able to continually find things I enjoy and some things that I would have never considered. There is just ao much music, I cannot ever imaging becoming bored with it.
Soundcloud is still great for discovering deep house