There's been a decent amount of activity at !sessionjams@sh.itjust.works and the music is always all over the place. Popular music, obscure music, non American music, pretty much everything depending on the day.
I browse and occasionally contribute as you know but I really think the community would benefit from some organisation in the form of post title rules over there.
Having a standardised "artist - track title" format or even "artist - track title (genre)" seen as it is such a varied selection over there would really make the browsing experience a lot better than a massive list of just song names in my opinion.
I was going to make a post on the community about this but seen as I see you here I thought I'd just make the suggestion directly to you. I think it would be a positive thing for the community going forward :)
There's definitely merit in what you're saying but I'm also fine with it staying how it is.
The idea is that it should be easy to share what you have on, but we're all using different services. IMO the easiest thing is using Lemmy's title filling feature which is the song name by default with Spotify links. I believe the other services like YouTube and tidal work similarly.
Many of the posts in that community are made by members while they are working, which also makes me hesitant to enforce title rules on them. Quick and easy posts are easy to blast out when all you have is a second or two. Maybe in time as it becomes more than just a handful of people posting it should be revisited.
FWIW I'm ok with the communities I create never becoming popular on Lemmy. Most are created for a small group of friends to mess around on where other services don't fit the bill. I'd much rather have fun posting when the mood strikes than worry about fitting a particular posting guideline. If like-minded people happen to join in, awesome. If not, we were having fun before and we'll continue to have fun without them!
Yeh fair enough, just thought I'd give some feedback from my perspective, I appreciate not everyone uses it in the same way.
Either way I'll carry on posting occasionally :D
Constructive criticism or meaningful suggestions should be welcomed imo, and when opinions differ reactions like yours are some of the best. I appreciate that you aren't hellbent on everyone fitting in the same box! Seriously, thank you for the civil interactions!
Footnote- I typed out a long-winded post about fediverse philosophy and decided this isn't the place for it. Maybe in another thread.
I'm mainly interested in old time fiddle tunes. I get them from youtube recommends sometimes, or from going to jams and hearing a cool tune, or someone I play with wants to learn a tune. I often post tunes I like on my old-time music lemmy community.
Honestly I mostly pull from the soundtracks in whatever I watch. Also Eurovision.
I buy music on bandcamp. I check out other suggested artists from the music I've bought on bandcamp. I check out bandcamp dailys. I read a couple of music blogs. I look into artists who are touring with artists I already like. I look into the record labels of artists I like. That sort of stuff.
Stream online from various college music stations. Some even have themed shows so you can tune in for stuff that's your style.
Also, consider making a thread here about the genre you are looking for. I've participated in a couple here I think.
Edit: I went through my comment history so you don't have to go through that awful garbage to find what you're looking for.
Don't be afraid to make your own. Peace.
Start with an artist I already like, find out who inspired them and who they inspired, listen to them, repeat
Bandcamp mostly. They do writeups sometimes like "the best metal from Colorado" or "a deep dive into acid jazz". They seem to be human written too and not ai slop, at least in the past.
Also seeing who's playing with who. If I like band A, and band B is opening for them, well I'll check out band B. I saw "Year of the Cobra" play with "The Well" and it was a good show, and I bought their album.
Yup, Bandcamp. You can also click on "Genres", then clicking on any genre will propose further subgenres. So currently i'm in a atmospheric black metal phase. Going to "metal", "black Metal", then "atmospheric black metal" shows me bands i might like.
Obviously genres are very fluid and sometimes subjective, but as a general tool to find music they work for me.
Lofi deep house I enjoy at the moment: https://open.spotify.com/album/4LLeWRsOXmo4KKAOINqYUs?si=2Esq5v13SPKiwowhuwHnmw
Formerly through TikTok and YouTube, but now only SoundCloud (especially through Daily drops) and Bandcamp.
Sorry, but Spotify Discover Weekly of course.
And I also always have Shazam ready to go for when out and about.
Year-end best of lists. Allmusic, pitchfork, and whatever other sites come out with best of year rankings.
I subscribe to the digital stream of radio stations through my podcast app. WFUV out of New York City, WXRV out of I don't know where, some random station out of Sydney, Australia I stumbled on that has an EDM DJ on at the same time I'm waking up on the weekends.
I also have Spotify, but I tend to get better recommendations from real human DJs at radio stations.
Talk to other music nerd friends, sift through the algorithmic recommendations of spotify/ whatever, browse music forums that match my tastes, use a song identifier to catch random ones in public...
There are lots of ways to find new tunes in 2024. I mostly listen to albums rather than individual tracks so hearing one good song usually leads to several from the same album/ep/lp
Mostly through movies/tv shows or sometimes NPR Tiny Desk
Theuppermostinlife curates a bunch of music they like, and I share some of their taste so that's where I get a bunch of new stuff from.
