I'm feeding off the weekly recommendations that are filled with the 6-8 genres I like. I don't get any mainstream garbage in my recommendations, and am finding New Songs every week.

I bet those articles come from the 3 big Labels

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

For me the recommendations have been circling the drain for a while. It's just the same songs over and over again, and it seems to have decided that I only like ambient electronic music and indie pop, both of which I actually find quite boring. No matter what I do, and no matter how much I like songs in other genres, that's what it serves me, along with the occasional '80s hit because it has figured out I'm old. It was good for a few years but then seemed to get stuck in a rut.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've been very cautious over all the years that ive been using it. My rule is to only like what I wouldn't mind listening daily to, and do playlists for all the other stuff that I don't want to get bombarded with.

It has worked out for me.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

More or less same, or random bands with the same name, I mostly use bandcamp for discovery these days, for now it's still great being able to follow small labels, bands and user tags.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

I used to like some of the old bittorrent clients seeing what other users were seeding. You would see someone with a lot of known killer music and something you had never heard of. It was a great way of finding new music.