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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (-1 children)

I’ve been living off a folder of mp3s for 30 years.

Same here. I love that shit. My mood is the algorithm. I still occasionally get new stuff, but from other sources I happen to see or hear, like a Netflix show that has it in the background or a musician's personal recommendation in an interview, and I go look it up manually. But even if I never got anything new, I already have more music than I could easily listen to in a lifetime that I already know I liked at least once.

I've tried streaming sources, but it never hits right. This way, where I am specifically picking the artist or album, it's always right, always fresh, and I'm always listening to something I want to hear.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (-1 children)

    It's all good. I think it has a lot more to do with accommodating one's own brain, and how we individually categorize and enjoy our listening, than with specifics of music like genre/artist/album/track.

    For myself, I almost always have some tune or another out of nowhere running through my head, so when I choose something to listen to, I am either picking with or against what's already playing. So if I tune in to the music that's already playing, I can see associated choices that are the same, similar, or completely unrelated on a superficial level, but my brain has linked them all somehow. Any of those choices, if I put them on, will satisfy because my brain is already playing one and mentally I'm already there.

    I think the reasons algorithms never work for me is because no one could ever follow that, much less predict it. Even I can't. Instead I've learned to simply accommodate it.

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