I find bands by going to shows. I buy vinyl there and add their music to my playlists.
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What platform are you on? I haven’t experienced this in Apple Music but I often listen to the same stuff rather than going down discovery holes.
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Whenever I'm feeling a new genre I don't have a playlist for I find an already made one. Old blogs and forums and such have so many curated lists. Lots of music communities exist and are still updating lists with new artists. From there I either find lists recommending songs/artists similar to the ones I liked (again plenty of human curated lists) or get recommendations from friends.
I follow some of my absolute favorite artists and they post inspiration playlists when they're making new albums from time to time too that I'll often listen to.
Basically I just don't randomly search for songs.
I hadn't considered that... Any communities/blogs you recommend?
I normally avoid that stuff as an introvert but reading their stuff wouldn't hurt. I'm not talking after all.
Not really. I don't follow any specific ones. Just go hunting through DDG searches and stuff when the mood for something new hits me. Though, they're are a few music communities here on Lemmy including an eternal playlist one where people post more songs all the time.
I'll check em out, thank you!
The only time I hear AI music is when someone sends it to me. And since they usually tell me "they made it with AI," I don't actually listen to it. I haven't used Spotify's recommendation system for a while, since it became garbage long before AI was around, and I don't listen to random music like on a radio or live podcast type thing. Occasionally it might be in a meme video, but it's incredibly rare not least of which is because all the creators I tend to follow and watch also hate AI.
Spicetify has an anti AI extension for songs known to be AI, but I can't say how effective it is.
i think last.fm + soulseek kinda works. i haven't seen shitty ai tracks on both of them.
I listen to bands I trust and older music mostly
Now, this is also what pisses me off about ai. I listen to older music to stay away from it. That might sound crazy, but the world is crazy...
I used to be able to just start a "smooth jazz" or "lo-fi" playlist and the algorithm would do its thing, but now I need to specifically look for "classics" or some such otherwise the slop shows up. I've not yet had this issue with the rest of my musical landscape though as that does default to real bands, but these "background" styles are definitely affected.
I own my media. I have old vinyl, 8-tracks, cassettes, cd's and digital files. I've never once "streamed" music except when I turned on my AC Delco radio back in the 70's.
my strategy is to not listen to music, but that may not be the best solution for everyone