Music discovery
Since the Plex announcement that their integration with tidal is ending, I'm considering what my options are. I'm aware the the *arrs but is there anything that will recommend music?
What do all you die hard pirates do to discover new bands?
I start playing music on YT music, and if there's anything I like I will pirate it
It doesn't help any one else unfortunately.
But I subscribed to Google Play Music All Access during the original promo in 2013. Part of $7.99 promo deal way back then, was that it was a Lifetime Subscription. Even after raising the price on all the 2014 YouTube Red promo users at the beginning of 2024, I'm still locked in at $7.99. I've de-Googled nearly everything else, but I'll hold on to that subscription till I die, or YouTube does.
Google 100% gonna kill that sometime soon.
I mostly look the reddits or here on Lemmy communitys of the genre I like. I also look at what bands tour with who and give there songs a listen.
But I have also came across a website called coreradio(.)online and it has been great for piracy and discovery of that genre (metalcore and other metals/rock ) as well. No idea if there are similar sites out there for other genres.
this is something i'm trying to figure out myself, so i'm right there with you 😅
the best thing i've done so far is to visit various public tracker sites and look at the trending torrents for music over different time frames.
i've also been just combing through different DJ sets, playlists, and allowing the almighty algorithm on YouTube take me to new places, and then I download the ones that i like. almost crate digging, but digitally :)
keen to see what others say, though.
I've been using last.fm for, I guess, decades now. Looking at what my "neighbors" are listening to is the most helpful.
I'd like an indexer good enough to show me real music close enough to what I get generatively from a suno.com prompt. :3
Havent found a good solution for me aswell.
I used to use spotify and let it create similar playlists to what I already had but ofc they killed that feature in favor of their useless smart shuffle....
Orpheus has a spiderweb map of similar artists at the bottom of every artist page. It’s not as in-depth as WCD’s was (RIP) but it’s serviceable!
Lidarr Import List might interest you. You can say connect to Spotify's playlists for top hits and have it auto add the albums to your library. Then you can use metadata on the music for smart playlists.
@anytimesoon Why do you want some computer recommending music for you? Wouldn't you rather your friends and shit? #FunkWhale
I already know what my friends listen to... Thats why I want computer recommendations!
Funkwhale would be good, but from my experience with it, it's a bit dead
Maybe this? https://nuclear.js.org/
Soulseek. I'll search a band I like, then browse the directories of other people with similar taste.
What do all you die hard pirates do to discover new bands?
I have discovered so much great new music via Twitch, but I am sure not every genre is well supplied with good DJs.
@Nyarlathotep @anytimesoon I mean, I do the same thing people have done for a century, I listen to the radio.
The radio doesn't play the kind of music that I like, but fortunately there are people online who do.
I jsut stream radio music in genres I like. There's like a zillion different stations out there.
I use RadioDroid from F Droid.
Maybe not exacly what you're looking for but www.chosic.com has a bunch of tools for recommending similar artists and songs.
This looks like a decent option. Do you know if they have an api? I can't find any info on the website
Not that I know of. I don't know much about the service to be honest but I use it when I feel like doing some exploring and then I just use the website and browse for things that looks interesting.
Can you clarify what the plex relationship has to do with this? I use plex and Tidal and always thought it was a little weird that I could access my plex account through plex app or Tidal app. I still think Tidal has some of the best algorithms for finding new / new to me music. I'm very disappointed that most AI engines seem to suck at good music recommendations ; I thought this might be one meaningful thing I could use them for.
Sure!
I used the integration to fill in the gaps I have in my personal collection. With tidal, I could start playing my own music and plexamp would just drop in some new songs for me.
It would create some playlists based on what I listened to, which again helped to discover new music.
I could just start using tidal, but that means turning my back on my personal collection. Or I could give up tidal, but that means losing the recommendations.
I'm asking here for help with the latter
I see. Now I'm kinda bummed I never took advantage of that option to mix personal collection with the Tidal Playlists - did not know it did that.
A quick search turned up tunemymusic.com which let's you upload a m3u Playlist to Tidal. This might be a good solution. I'll have to play with it myself later.
If you don't have a problem with sharing your listening data:
Or you can just ask people for recommendations.
LastFm is great. Entire "radio stations" for every (niche) genre out their.