Great question. Apart from Videosift and general browsing there's my twitter feed and whatever I'm subscribed to in Google Reader. Music is marketed and discovered in so many ways now that I find routes to new artists in almost any RSS feed.

It continues to puzzle me that I've never found or taken to any existing music website. I read about music in an ad hoc manner visiting whatever site I get linked to. I do subscribe to the Guardian's Culture and Music feeds but even there I rarely find new music.

Example: I somehow got onto a site that offered high quality websites and one of the example sites was slatedmag.com which interviews artists. This led me to Kimbra whose videos I tend tracked down on the sift and I then submitted one of her songs (which has pqueued since...)

I'm on what.cd - everything I'd ever want or need!

I like pandora.com if im bored with my current selection. I skip around until I find something I like then listen to their songs on Youtube to see if an album stands out. It's served me well so far :-D

If my instincts are right and you're a little bored with your own selection now, might I recommend Starfucker (it's not what it sounds like it will be).



Edit: "Pop song" is another good one off the same album

Pandora is okay for more popular songs. For instance, I have a Ween channel that plays a lot of stuff I really like. But there's not much new there to discover.

I use Spotify to see what my friends are listening to. Usually we'll have similar musical interests.

I've recently discovered these from reddit:
http://stereomood.com/
http://grooveshark.com/

Befriend a musician. If you want to give me a list of stuff you like, I could recommend some music for you.

lastfm similar artists sometimes yields some good finds.

I occasionally check out the top music picks on metacritic, which seem to be disappointing more often den not.

I've been meaning to write a sift talk about adding an audio element to the sift, so we could share and upvote music in the same way we do videos. I don't know of any sites that do that. Someone already bought the audiosift.com domain, unfortunately. @dag, what say you about adding an audiosift to the videosift?

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How would it work? Are there a lot of embedable audio only formats?>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Befriend a musician. If you want to give me a list of stuff you like, I could recommend some music for you.
lastfm similar artists sometimes yields some good finds.
I occasionally check out the top music picks on metacritic, which seem to be disappointing more often then not.
I've been meaning to write a sift talk about adding an audio element to the sift, so we could share and upvote music in the same way we do videos. I don't know of any sites that do that. Someone already bought the audiosift.com domain, unfortunately. @dag, what say you about adding an audiosift to the videosift?

I like music videos:

http://videos.antville.org/
http://www.videopimp.org/
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/list.php?which=genre&id=11&order=score&sortorder=desc&page=1 (free home made trance tunes)
VS, duh.

I've had a go at spotify and pandora along the journey, but from memory have suffered from being in Australia and facing some limitations on access.

Perhaps I need to invest in one of those things that allows me to present an American IP or something.

Otherwise, thanks for the tips. I will follow them up.

spotify, last.fm, automatic playlists in spotify that find suggestions based on spotify scrobbling to last.fm, playlists by others on spotify, related artists on last.fm, labelsites, review sites, video sites, blogs, local recordstore, local musicvenue, musicvenues in amsterdam & utrecht, festivals.

i would only know 1% of the bands i know now if i never had internet access (especially with spotify, and not having to find everything on soulseek which always took forever)

Pandora was great before fascism blocked it in the UK, a lot of people need to die for that crime. Last.fm's a mediocre substitute but occasionally it spits out something amazing. Damn difficult to tell if a band's worth your time from one listen though, the good stuff's deeper than that.

My music collection's pretty much finished - once I found Manilla Road all my needs were satisfied. The last time I wanted to expand I went to a decent review site, picked a letter at random and bought a bunch of 10/10 albums. Yeah, imagine paying for media, that must have been a long time ago.

Yeah, Spotify is still out of scope for Aussies: http://itechreport.com.au/2011/07/07/spotify-reveals-us-launch-but-australia-still-not-on-the-cards/

But perhaps I can get it anyway: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/05/how-to-use-spotify-outside-of-europe-with-a-vpn-service/

Pandora seems to be the same. Not sure about last.fm

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Befriend a musician. If you want to give me a list of stuff you like, I could recommend some music for you.
lastfm similar artists sometimes yields some good finds.
I occasionally check out the top music picks on metacritic, which seem to be disappointing more often then not.
I've been meaning to write a sift talk about adding an audio element to the sift, so we could share and upvote music in the same way we do videos. I don't know of any sites that do that. Someone already bought the audiosift.com domain, unfortunately. @dag, what say you about adding an audiosift to the videosift?


*than

Sorry, on a roll.

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FTFY.
>> ^blankfist:

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Befriend a musician. If you want to give me a list of stuff you like, I could recommend some music for you.
lastfm similar artists sometimes yields some good finds.
I occasionally check out the top music picks on metacritic, which seem to be disappointing more often then not.
I've been meaning to write a sift talk about adding an audio element to the sift, so we could share and upvote music in the same way we do videos. I don't know of any sites that do that. Someone already bought the audiosift.com domain, unfortunately. @dag, what say you about adding an audiosift to the videosift?

than
Sorry, on a troll.

>> ^dag:

FTFY.
>> ^blankfist:
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Befriend a musician. If you want to give me a list of stuff you like, I could recommend some music for you.
lastfm similar artists sometimes yields some good finds.
I occasionally check out the top music picks on metacritic, which seem to be disappointing more often then not.
I've been meaning to write a sift talk about adding an audio element to the sift, so we could share and upvote music in the same way we do videos. I don't know of any sites that do that. Someone already bought the audiosift.com domain, unfortunately. @dag, what say you about adding an audiosift to the videosift?

than
Sorry, on a troll.



Damn you!

I've seen soundcloud embedded quite a bit, and spotify is getting a lot of buzz. If you could make this happen, than it would be the best thing since sliced crack. >> ^dag:

How would it work? Are there a lot of embedable audio only formats?>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Befriend a musician. If you want to give me a list of stuff you like, I could recommend some music for you.
lastfm similar artists sometimes yields some good finds.
I occasionally check out the top music picks on metacritic, which seem to be disappointing more often then not.
I've been meaning to write a sift talk about adding an audio element to the sift, so we could share and upvote music in the same way we do videos. I don't know of any sites that do that. Someone already bought the audiosift.com domain, unfortunately. @dag, what say you about adding an audiosift to the videosift?

<span>Girl Talk by GirlTalk1</span>

^Yes please.

It's great when there's a playlist like this to embed, but most soundcloud songs tend to live as a single song. And people like me don't want to listen to just one song, then find another song on the site to play. We want to press play and let it just go. Not sure if there's a way to tell if a soundcloud playlist or song embed is finished playing or not, but if there is then would be nice to preload another song or playlist and have it ready to autoplay.

A half second of googling and I found this: http://developers.soundcloud.com/

And it looks like you can also use SoundManager2's JS library: http://soundcloud-sm2.heroku.com/docs/application.html

Furthermore there seems to be an onfinish handler with that JS library, though I didn't see an event or listener associated with it for the half second I checked.

It's also possible to embed albums and tracks from Bandcamp. But you have to modify the embed code since they only seem to provide iframe embed codes.

I'd be very happy if we grew this kind of element on the Sift. People sharing playlists they recommend etc.

Make it happen, Dag.

This could be huge.

We're gonna be rich. RICH!!!!!

Trillions of dollars!!!!! I'm looking through the Yachts on Amazon as we speak!

>> ^kymbos:

We're gonna be rich. RICH!!!!!


We?

I'm kind of an audio quality snob. If I wrote the word they call us types you'd think I'm supposed to be in jail. When I find something I like (and that can come from any number of sources, but I don't listen to any streaming stuff) I track down their physical CD's and purchase them.

First service to offer non-lossey format audio, I'm there. Till then it's CD, Blu-Ray Audio, Whatever ripped to FLAC.

I see that this is an old post, but here is where I get a lot of my music (besides the aforementioned sites):

turntable.fm (USA or proxy only, sorry!)
hypem.com
various music blogs (playthissongloud.com, thissongissick.com <- these are better for more mainstream electronic artists) many subreddits:
http://www.reddit.com/r/futurebeats/
http://www.reddit.com/r/ambientmusic/
http://www.reddit.com/r/glitch
http://www.reddit.com/r/idm/