How does the Beehaw community consume music? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 days ago by MrFergus616@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

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Hi folks, first post. Just wanted to kick off a potential discussion, I don't use streaming at all due to poor artist rates and the behaviour of certain CEO's

At the moment, I'm at a sizeable vinyl collection around sixty and growing, mainly European Hard Rock/Metal, however I do have the odd HipHop type album too (Young Fathers)

I'm the type of guy who will buy an album based off the cover, which has introduced me to lots of cool stuff, but I was just wondering as I'm getting older, how are people finding new music in 2025?

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[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago

I mostly buy music on iTunes, so I can export it to mp3 and have that available wherever (the mp3 conversion option is actually built-in).

iTunes is terrible for discovery though; it hides 90% of music on it unless you search for it explicitly, and only shows the most currently popular or new music. For discovery I don't have one good approach I've found, I usually just do a web search like "artists similar to <band I'm currently listening to>" and see what comes up.