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How do you discover music?

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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  • I listen to my local college radio station, as well as a handful of others on TuneIn. It's nice having an idea of what people under 30 are into.

    • Thanks for the TuneIn callout. For some reason I’ve never bothered with a radio app but this is pretty slick. I should probably RTFM but it looks like like you can tune in nationally/globally? I gotta figure out where the cool kids are enrolling these days.

      • Yep! You can listen live to whatever is hosted on there. It's definitely not everything, but I bet a solid 75% of US-based radio stations are on there. Can't speak much to non-US radio, but I have listened to some stuff out of Germany before.

        Another cool one is the site n10.as. It's a volunteer radio station out of Toronto (I think). It's primarily reruns these days, but there are still some folks doing live shows.

        • All of the BBC stations used to be on TuneIn, but they got pulled a couple of years ago, which pissed me off.

    • As a Brit, your college stations always fascinated me. We have student radio here, but it's a completely different vibe. From what I've heard of your stations, they sound almost professional, with good presenters spinning the tracks they want to play, whereas our student radio is mostly just people learning how to talk into a mic, reading news bulletins poorly, and playing whichever tracks happen to already be on the playout system.

      And I speak as someone who was involved in my university's radio station when I was there, studying for a radio production degree..

      • My university's college radio station runs the full gamut of what you described. It's kind of interesting how they do it.

        Broadcasting students get to have a show after completing certain core courses. They begin over summer, when listenership is very low. Listening to the station in late June/early July is adorable. I should actually tune in today, now that I'm thinking about it, because it's around time for all the baby broadcasters to be doing their beginner shows.

        Students must have the option to end their show at some point, because a lot of student broadcasters just kinda disappear. Others, though, will stay on for 2 or 3 years as they finish their degree. Some of them become VERY good.

        • If you're happy to reveal such information, what's your local station, because I'd like to hear it.

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