The more often streaming services make mistakes with recommendations or offer tracks that you have to skip, the more you want to switch to something else, but also not waste time searching for the right application, studying unverified playlists or authored selections.
Today we will do part of this work so that at the right time you can find for yourself what is most likely to be suitable for listening. We invite all interested under cat.
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On another platform
Everyone has a couple of music apps on their smartphone. All of them differ slightly in the quality of recommender systems. When the result of the work of one of them is not satisfactory, the listener switches between services or goes to more general sites like YouTube.
If you're a fan of independent labels and artists, check out a couple of your favorites. indie albums on this platform and see what the algorithm throws at you. The result must be worthy. But this approach will most likely not work for pop music - many that for a long time they have not received accurate recommendations, even when they listen to something under their account for hours and try to “teach” the system.
Fortunately, the help of algorithms is not the only way to find new tracks. Remember music magazines? Previously, some of them even came out with free selections of songs from a given release on CD. Now there is no trace left of the bulk of such publications. But online, this industry has become more diverse - in addition to music journalism and blogs, a range of thematic services has appeared. Alone , others help support your favorite bands so that the authors can .
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One of these platforms - Bandcamp - also does a good job of recommending the function: as the editors of their own media , issuing и so using common UX/UI mechanics. This platform does not rely on algorithms and is more like a mix of vintage vinyl outlets and cassette stores, and also something like home music collections, which are always very interesting to study at a friend's house.
She's like , which at one time captured the attention of almost all musicians and listeners with the freedom to customize pages with players and a list of "friends" [remember, the first of them was always ]. But in Bandcamp and decided to help sell records not only online, but also on classical media, and also to distribute merch.
In email newsletters
Browse subreddits like or looking for something suitable is a waste of time if your is about to end. It is better to subscribe to newsletters with musical recommendations and, as necessary, find letters with selections of tracks in the inbox.
Music in such mailing lists is selected not by algorithms, but by independent authors. One of these projects is . Only two people work on it. [ distributed editions].
If you want to receive updates from major media with full-time journalists, including on the topic There from the New York Times. [Here ].
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The advantage of such mailings is that they return the listener to their familiar ecosystem and provide links to music hosted on popular streaming services. But you just might not have the patience to get to the actual listening. Not everyone is ready to delve into five-page expert opuses and understand the reasoning .
In podcasts
For those who lack the depth of text reviews, or simply do not want to “read from the screen” once again, we would suggest listening to podcasts. They can be with snippets of new tracks and discussions about the bands that released them. Or represent ready-made music collections.
In the material "» we touched on Lo-fi Hip Hop Radio - for fans of this genre there is . This is not a stream, you can download several episodes at once in any application for listening to podcasts and put the ones you need as needed.
If you want more variety, listen - thematic mixes and their discussion [in the player there is a link to "past shows" - almost 400 many hours of podcast episodes, and compiled a huge playlist of 1,5k tracks from most of the published programs].
PS These options are only a small part of the arsenal of possibilities that we are preparing to discuss. In our next article, we will tell you what favorite band, what are some examples of great web radio stations, and .
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