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Another reason to never listen to anything recommended by spotify

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That sounds great in theory, but the thing I haven't been able to replace is seamless discovery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would have trouble finding new music without torrent sites. The trackers I use have a web of related artists at the bottom of the artist page.

The users add to the community through comments, uploads, suggestions, organizing, et cetera.

Using a tracker has helped me discover music that ain't even on Spotify. It's the tits!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's many blogs where you can discover music and unlike algorithms you get more diversity and nice descriptions. If you listen to a lot of hip hop it's even easier by looking the featured artists

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spotify does a phenomenal job of learning what I like and auto-playing a mix of things after I finish a song or album that aren't just in the same genre but are also based on my taste profile that's developed over hours of listening habits -- all with zero effort on my part. And I can still discover things via blogs too.

There just isn't anything like that available in the self-hosted world yet, unfortunately.