News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Problem with Muzak – Spotify’s bid to remodel an industry. Parent comment

Re:The Problem with Muzak – Spotify’s bid to remodel an indu... by meo4 on Monday December 11, 2017 @09:05PM (#15902509)
there are other places to go to find your challenging music

what are those? I have to work hard to find interesting music, so I'm curious if I'm ignorant of some really huge obvious places for music discovery.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Problem with Muzak – Spotify’s bid to remodel an indu... by thirdsun on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:59AM (#15903542)
For me it's Bandcamp as well as independent online record stores like:

- Piccadilly Records

- Norman Records

- Boomkat

- Red Eye Records

- Bleep

Some of these stores offer digital, lossless purchasing options, but more importantly all of them feature staff curated recommendations and featured releases, which are, to me, more effective than Spotify's algorithms. I can't count the number of times Spotify recommends songs I clearly already know and have been listening to via the service before.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Problem with Muzak – Spotify’s bid to remodel an indu... by maxscam on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:30PM (#15903009)
I personally use bandcamp. You can see best sellers from basically any super niche or not so niche genre
[ Parent | on HN ]