Re:Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangste...
by riprowan on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:37PM
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Well it turns out that you aren't alone.
Radio is still the most important music discovery media: https://d28wbuch0jlv7v.cloudfront.net/images/infografik/norm....
Notably, that chart puts Pandora discovery at a meaningful 10%.
Re:Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangste...
by voltagex_ on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @12:29AM
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I've had the opposite experience from you. I don't listen to much broadcast radio any more. I used to use Last.FM's recommender to find new bands to listen to, now I just use Spotify - after a few weeks the "Discover Weekly" playlist is spot on, even with a very eclectic taste in music (http://www.last.fm/user/voltagex/library/tracks?date_preset=...). I've discovered entire genres via Spotify and last.fm and gone to several live events that I wouldn't have even known about without services like these.
Re:Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangste...
by specialist on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @12:56PM
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Thank you for sharing your favorites!
Aside: I very much want to use scrobble (or equiv) to consolidate all my faves. It's on my ever growing to do list.
Curation works better than recommenders.
To my great surprise, I continue to discover new acts, music thru the radio. Just like when I was kid.
KBCS.fm and KEXP.org have great speciality shows. They also do a good job of posting their play lists, streaming archives, linking to artists, promoting upcoming shows, etc.
I've rarely discovered new stuff from a recommender (Pandora, last.fm, whatever). Now I don't even bother.
But I do rediscover music (from my youth) via YouTube. Which is a delight.
If mining radio playlists stops working for me, I'd be willing to try something like Apple Beat's notion.