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As an aside, I'm interested in the impact music platforms on exploration and collection.

Once Upon a Time I loved having curated CD and record collections. Even more so when MP3s came out. With the transition to streaming music, I have basically given up on the idea of a curated collection. This is reduced my interest in Exploration and music in general. I mostly listen to what I'm fed and find it marginally satisfying.

For those of you that continue to explore and collect music in the streaming world, how do you do it? Any tips or tools?

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The lazy answer is I go to the Bandcamp homepage and look at the daily articles, the new and notable songs, and if nothing catches my eye I watch the stream of what people are buying for a bit and click on things that look interesting. The last part is hard to replicate but enough people buy enough music that it updates too fast almost.

I also stream from the 2 week show archives of KEXP. Recently I've been enjoying https://www.kexp.org/shows/overnight-afrobeats/

I also stream from the 2 week show archives of KEXP. Recently I've been enjoying https://www.kexp.org/shows/overnight-afrobeats/

Do they still blast a vuvuzela every 30 seconds on that show? That's when I tuned out.

Make a Bandcamp account and follow users that buy music similar to your tastes. Then, semi-frequently, browse through the feed of everything your followed users have bought recently and sample it until you find something you like. Prune and add followed users as necessary to make it more likely to find something you like.

These days I mostly just transcode to mp3 from youtube. Nothing about it is ideal.

I used to use what.cd to both collect high quality mp3s and to explore new music (their similar music engine was phenomenal). Unfortunately what was shut down a few years ago.

I just continued collecting. I especially like old albums that are not available on streaming services.

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