I’ve been meaning to stop my Spotify sub because saving more money how ever small it may be. But I kind of like the discovery part of it.
Been using YouTube (Music) again for music listening honestly because it does have YouTube only artists and songs (not in an official partnership or similar, just that that’s where people only upload there to share kind of thing), as well as live versions and in general the tons of covers, remixes and such.
Truth be told I like what YTM algorithm gives me recently.
Having said that, I am open to hear suggestions that further divorces from big tech.
I don’t mind for anime/movies/shows as I rely on word of mouth in the various chat groups I’m already in. Maybe I should extend to music focused groups too?
The last 100 or so songs I’ve found have been from people posting the songs here on Lemmy or things I heard in memes.
Its so much easier to find music heard in other media or on PA systems now compared to when I was growing up due to smartphones where you can have it listen to a clip and tell you exactly what it is. Before that, everything you heard was just some form of Sandstorm by Darude.