How is everyone listening to music these days?

I use YouTube Music almost exclusively, since I like having YouTube Premium and Music comes for free. But it’s not the best experience.

For indie artists I buy their music on Bandcamp and listen there, but I was thinking if I should download all the files from Bandcamp and upload to YouTube Music, so I can listen to everything in a single place.

  • BetoOPMA
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    21 year ago

    Though I definitely would like to be exploring more now that I’ve got my funkwhale up and running. Seems like a good way to discover some new stuff.

    How are you using Funkwhale? Do you have multiple users?

    I run a single-user instance as an alternative to Soundcloud (though lacking comments) and Bandcamp (lacking payments). I have two channels, one for work-in-progress songs and experiments (called “backstage”) and another for [releases])https://songs.thefishermenandthepriestess.com/channels/releases).

    I think it’s cool that people can follow these channels on Mastodon, and have the new songs show up in their feeds, but the federation is a bit wonky at the moment. I am running an older version, so maybe that’s something that has improved.

    I haven’t played much with Funkwhale in a multi-user instance, or with the federation between instances, which is why I’m curious about how you are planning to use Funkwhale to discover to new music.

    • @RiotEarp
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      21 year ago

      It’s all kind of confusing still but I’m trying to use it pretty much the same way you are. I want unfinished stuff in one space so that people I’m working with can go check it out and pick something they want to work on (or give feedback). I also want some other unfinished stuff to require an account on the instance so only people in the band can hear it. That’s what I’m struggling with right now so I haven’t really tried using it to explore yet.

      For discovering music I thought I’d find a list of instances and dig around, maybe subscribe to a few I like and watch their rss feed or something. A search like intitle:“funkwhale” inurl:“/library/” should give a lot of good results to start with.

      people can follow these channels on Mastodon

      I figured there’s all kinds of cool stuff like that to do. Might be the best way to follow playlist curators or artists. I know you can do that from within funkwhale but I would prefer mine to only have the music I’ve made.