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Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

70 points · 109 comments · beardyw

pkthunder · 1790939090 · focus · HN ↗
I’ve been going through my own personal revival of physical media - mostly audio. I don’t miss streaming at all.
Every CD I buy gets ripped to a NAS that hosts the music behind Navidrone where I can stream to my vehicle using Play:Sub (thanks to Tailscale for enabling all of this to work for me!).
I am just so enamored with being able to get the best of both worlds - my own music, anywhere.
I do wish I could figure out some sort of recommendation system to find new magic, though. Obviously not to steam new/unowned songs, just to point me in a direction next time I go to the store.
1. alin23 · 1790940916 · focus · HN ↗
  I got myself an iPod Nano recently and love curating my songs to fit the 8GB [0]
  But I have the same problem of trying to find recommendations. Whenever I talk about music with my brother and friends, that's when I discover the best music, but that happens rarely nowadays.
  So with the help of Claude, I've revived my 10 year old project on finding music based on Spotify tracks and liked songs: <a href="https://noiseblend.com" rel="nofollow">https://noiseblend.com
  Completely free, haven't shared it much because it's more of a personal thing than something I want public. But maybe it comes in handy for some people here.
  [0] <a href="https://files.alinpanaitiu.com/ipod-nano.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://files.alinpanaitiu.com/ipod-nano.mp4
  1. swozey · 1790942320 · focus · HN ↗
    I use spotify for convenience and social sake, my friends use it and its been the best mobile/android auto/desktop sync app but it's well known for not having literally the best albums/songs/eps/whatever that they can't monetize or license for whatever reason so you might want to expand your app to look at spotify for recs but factor in that even someone huge like mac miller has a ton of music not on spotify that a real fan would side-eye you for not knowing on a recommendation list.
    There is so much early career music for artists you can't find on spotify that it gives people who only learned the artist from spotify a curated history of the artist.
    Spotify is the disney land walled garden music app and right now Ella Langley is Minnie Mouse.
    When you go camping or kayaking you can tell all the people using spotify, their playlists all blend into the same algo topping songs at some point. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they factor in how much music is cached near the cell tower at the lake I'm parked on right now to maximize profits and limit their bandwidth costs. Let's keep that Zac Brown Band pumping near the boat ramp and feed it to everyone who probably likes it anyway.
    alin23 · 1790942637 · focus · HN ↗
    Yep, I'm aware of that, I listen to a lot of live small room concerts of Jason Mraz for example, which aren't even on Youtube, I mostly get them from fan uploads on archive.org.
    I mostly use Noiseblend to find such artists, or albums, and then I expand my search manually through Youtube, fan forums, archives. It would be a pain to try to integrate that into a web app.

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