I recently realized I haven't actively listened to music for almost a decade. Some life stuff combined with a job I've had for awhile that really exhausts me, and I guess I hit a dead end without realizing it.

Back in the Before Times, the local radio stations played exclusively power trio stuff, and I sort of came to the conclusion that... I didn't like music? Which is obviously dumb, I just had a limited window on things.

Then Pandora happened and life was good. You could throw thumbs up / down at stuff and it would figure out what you liked. It was around this time I figured out that I liked stuff like Thievery Corporation, but since there wasn't any way to export your history, I don't recall many names from that period.

Pandora kept getting worse until I stopped using it. No idea what email I even used at this point. For some reason, probably stubbornness, I never picked up a Spotify account. And so here we are today: I don't listen to music much, and I don't even know what I like.

So like, what do? When I hit up Youtube for some search like "focus music" for getting stuff done, or "viking music" for playing Valheim with friends, I usually enjoy it, but that's a far cry from actually having a taste in things.

  • DaringDarek [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Nice, haven't thought about that site for a long time. Do you let Jesus / the algorithm take the wheel? Their trending playlists look like they could be very useful.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Follow artists you like on SC and then look at the people who comment on their posts. See what other artists/groups they are following/commenting on. Also, tons of curators making playlists so you don't have search high and low as well.

      The SC algo needs to be fed likes or it will revert to the mean eventually. So I only trust the SC algo for recommendations when I am actively using it.