This post was originally going to be titled “How does music discovery on Apple Music compare to Spotify these days?” but I want to make it more broad.

All advice and ideas appreciated!

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[–] SCmSTR@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly? TikTok.

I have found more good music and culture on TikTok than anywhere else on any other platform. Remixes, up and coming artists, classical, jazz, hippie, pop, subculture. You name it.

I think this has to do with how TikTok's algorithm nails you down to similar interests and stuff, but also not so much like YouTube where it's literally ONLY more of the exact same.

Spotify sometimes hits a good station, but you largely have to find your own vibe-of-the-moment.

TikTok now, though, for years, has been turning up some of the most interesting and good to listen music. I get northerner civil war anthem remixes, super genuine pop piano music that I'm blown away by, culture videogame anthems, and more.

The one drawback is that it's not fast. If you search through music on a service, top lists and "audiophile" lists, you're bound to find tons of cool new things that you probably never would have found. TikTok cannot compare with doing your own actual mass searching. But, as a platform of just using it, it's been otherwise by far the best.

[–] Artemis@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

My girlfriend has found a lot of great music there as well over the past couple years. She doesn’t even search it out, really. She doom scrolls like normal but the culture of tik tik has a bent towards soundtracks and people seem to like to show off their cool music that way. Good call