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.
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.
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.