What is the best app/service to discover new music?

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Where are the music discovery apps? It seems there's no innovation on this subject... What service has helped you most?

Sean-Michael Dore · Accepted Answer

Built by the folks who created We Are Hunted (acquired by Twitter and relaunched as #Music in 2013)

Hayatt Baanks · Answer

Created by a music genius and used daily by some of the best ears across the globe. Only place I can truly say I find some of the best unheard of artists and their music!

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For ten bucks a month, I am presented with thousands of newly curated playlists in every which form there could ever be. Further, they have real radio stations with DJs that actually care about good music, and not just putting out the top 16 hit songs of the month.

I don't possibly know how my music discovery system could get any better than Apple Music.

Patrick Thompson · Answer

Spotify Discover in general is amazing. I have found so many great artists using Spotify's Browse > Discover section.

ZingChart · Answer

Sylo consolidates the music platforms you are probably already using. SoundCloud, Spotify, Itunes, etc...

janniks · Answer

Spotify already has great features included! 'Discover Weekly' is one of them, but also 'Playlist/Song Radio' 🎶

Ouriel Ohayon · Answer

by far the best. hands down. nothing comes even close to the quality of the recommendations and the simplicity of the experience

Stefan Theofilos · Answer

Cymbal is like Instagram for Music.  I love it!

Jeremie Paret · Answer

Great to discover new genres

Alex Ledak · Answer

The app is minimalistic, but can make great recommendations based on your musical tastes.

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This app pulls from the best of ReverbNation's millions of artists. It's meticulously curated by a group of music experts and influencers, and it results in some really solid music in there that won't be in any other app.

Abhijith · Answer

Select a few artists you love and it'll recommend you 10 songs daily!

Jordan Finnigan · Answer

It's hard to believe this hasn't been mentioned yet... With all of the data they have from years and years of scrobbling (i.e. "listening" -- 1 song play = 1 "scrobble"), Last.fm is my #1 place for finding new music to listen to. It recommends based on your listening habits, or by the habits of others who like that same artist/album/song. Give it a go!

о. · Answer

Still rocks! It has web-version, unofficial Mac client called Plug and apps for iOS and Android.

Dominik Serafin · Answer

Hype Machine is just simply the best for discovery of less known tracks & remixes. Nothing compares to it!

Duarte Martins · Answer

Curated music. I never got any of the other popular services to make good recommendations, so I just follow selectors instead.

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I use Tidal to discover new music and rediscover older albums. Sound quality is great and it comes with an offline mode. Love it.

Tomi Karjalainen · Answer

You get new songs all the time, and same time You can imagine situation that the other people listening same song 1st time and maybe feel same way! That's social!

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🔔NotifyMe.Music is a Telegram bot that lets you subscribe to artists and then notifies you about new releases.

Ernst · Answer

Find new songs by checking playlists of playlists of others.

Ryan Hoover · Answer

LOVE Hype Machine.  I've listened for years, often discovering remixes/mashups and up-and-coming artists you won't find on Spotify or the radio.

Pavan Sethi · Answer

Spotify Weekly is great and the more you use it, the better it gets.  Couple tips:  Save each week into a playlist in case you don't have time to listen to everything in a week.  Also, if you listen to something that isn't normally what you like (think study or background music), make sure to listen in a "Private Session" so it doesn't affect your recommendations.

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I tried YouTube, SoundCloud and Apple Music. I was ready to give up music due to the fact that discovering new, cool music was such a pain and those tools never recommended something at least half good. But then came Spotify. It delivered the most amazing experience. It's just jaw dropping.

Kees Suijkerbuijk · Answer

Now this is what I'm looking for! Great concept!

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Theres a GREAT recommendation engine built in. I dj so it helps me find new music fast.

Daniel Wyss · Answer

Similar like Spotify Discover Weekly, there is a playlist called "My New Music Playlist". Updated Weekly. And there are a lot of new playlists daily on your "For you" Tab. I love it.

Pavan Sethi · Answer

Discover Weekly is awesome! Some tips: 1) As you can imagine, the more you listen to Spotify, the better. 2) If you don't want what you're listening to at the moment have an effect on your recommendations, turn on 'Private Mode' (like if you're listening to background music to concentrate).

dimitar inchev · Answer

I use Pandora since they got started. To this day, even with the competition of all new players, I can see how Pandora is a step ahead in finding relevant music that I actually like and don't have to skip songs as with the other services.

Kesava Mandiga · Answer

I've been using Noon Pacific for a few weeks now and it's a simple, curated list of good new songs. Easy to use and no hassles with subscriptions.

Nick Di Stefano · Answer

They also have a daily subscription offering that gets you a text with link to new song ($1.99/mo)

Noah Huber-Feely · Answer

I have found great success with the "I'm Feeling Lucky" radio feature which has worked very well for discovery every time I've used it. They also have given me great recommendations for new releases, and I've usually found at least one gem each day from both features. I've been using this service for over a year, and have found it to fulfill all my discovery needs.

Mudit Thareja · Answer

just amazing nuff said!

Gaurav Agrawal · Answer

Its awesome

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🔔NotifyMe.Music is a Telegram bot that lets you subscribe to artists and then notifies you about new releases.

Houston Ford · Answer

Just re-launched their new iOS app... great source!

Duarte Martins · Answer

A very rich archive of mixes, playlists, tracks, talks, concerts, and podcasts from around the world.

arm ampersand · Answer

This one used to be really good. The idea was similar to Tinder but for music discovery. The design was really simple. And to top it all the music curation was the best.

It really felt like browsing though Vinyl Records back in the day. You would only hear 30 seconds of one song until it skipped to the next one. That's the key to discover new music imo because listening to the full song just becomes boring, the idea is just to discover, later you can gather all the music you loved to listen to them fully.

Not sure what happened to this app but at one point it wasn’t available in my country anymore. I would pay money to have this app again in my phone. Hope someday it becomes available again.

mark! · Answer

One of my favorite apps that I use daily!