Ah yes. I forgot Later With… him, and end of year lists especially.
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Unfortunately not. We have gen 1 Sonos One speakers which don’t have any inputs are only usable via the Sonos application.
Sonos works with Lyrion (LMS) - Just saying.
I spend some my time with Qobuz “Discover” as well. I feel like Roon did a better job of suggesting new artists and creating playlists but I didn’t like the requirement for a Core and decided to move on.
Also, good suggestion for the subject line of the thread. New music discover is much more appropriate.
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Most of the new things I listen to (new to me at least) I discover by listening to Radio Paradise.
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The Jazz forums here and Jazzwise.
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Facebook music groups- Krautrock, Canterbury, Jazz Fusion etc
BBC 6 music
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Radio stations such as Radio Paradise, NRK Jazz and FIP; friends an relatives; record reviews in the written press - more or less in that order of importance.
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I don’t go out of my way to seek new music, rather it is more by chance.
Re discovery, with classical music I tend find occasional threads on here useful for naming composers or particular works that I might not have heard with enough info to suggest a real possibility, otherwise rather random, e.g. sometimes something mentioned in a review of something hifi, or heard on one of the rare times I’m travelling in a vehicle with either Classic FM or DDC R3 playing, or even herd on TV, etc. With non classical it is more often through someone els mentioning or playing, and very occaionally someone on here references an unfamilar artist with comparisons that suggest real possibility. Sometimes at live gigs the music before or between performances has included things I’ve liked but not known. And very occasionally, but with the emphasis on very, I have heard something on a radio that caught my ear.
To hear before buying I generally use whatever free serice Ican find carrying it, e.g. Spotify, Youtube, Bandcamp.
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Internet radio - many blues stations - YouTube, Tidal’s user playlists and new releases sections.
Years past principally it was the Virgin Store in Oxford Street, London, where one could pick a CD cover that caught the eye, scan its bar code and listen on headphones to the first minute of each track. This way, I picked up many new artists that I otherwise would not have known.
I have (had) and an extensive CD collection that I’m still using Tidal to listen to, so I’m kept occupied.
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- Internet radio
- The forum
- Friends’ recommendations
- Taking punts in the second hand vinyl store (AKA judging an album by it’s cover)
- Reading Wikipedia/All Music (later has become useless lately) to find related bands from group members
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Anyone using ROOAIDJ?
I use RooUPnP so that I can use Roon on legacy streamers. So I was wondering if this ChatGPT software would be useful in finding new music? I understand that it will save playlists direct to Roon.
However, I am reluctant to use a search engine that requires a lot of energy to run (albeit not at my direct expense).
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Given that music is totally subjective, I suspect a lot would depend on how clear cut your musical preferences are, or how broad they are. Unless very broad I imagine it would be necessary to feed it with many hundreds of things you like and don’t like, and in particular things that on the face of what you like it might be presumed that you would also like but you don’t. Given enough such data it might have a fighting chance of a tolerable success rate.
Maybe the question needs considering from a different point of view: can you identify yourself why there are some things you do like and other apparently very similar things that you don’t? For example for me, I might like some of a particular artist output but not all, not uncommonly because there are changes in their musical over time that at some point go past what I like. I can’t help thinking that to identify that the AI would have to be able to analyse the music! But perhaps I’m wrong.
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Good point IB … I know what I like and Roon finds similar artists, but I’m interested in new stuff. Hence it is useful talking to friends or listening to Paradise Radio or such like.
In my youth I would try to listen to all the albums by a single artist. What a rabbit hole that was - expensive too. As perhaps most of us have found, sampling recommendations on line is useful, before committing to buying. I was just looking for a short cut!
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Radio 3 Qobuz.
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I subscribe to a few newsletters that cover my main musical tastes, for example Jazz Times, a free subscription. New recordings are regularly reviewed. Also I subscribe to Tidal and regularly check new album releases in various genres. New releases are featured in a separate section.
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I"m with Mike, with the addition of 6 Music.
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What we’re really talking about here is machine learning which scrapes data from multiple sources. It isn’t sophisticated enough to do anything meaningful with your preferences albeit it may accidentally come across something you subsequently like. If one considers that amongst the many sources are the sites of commercial record companies, streaming services, places like AllMusic et al then you soon realise that the likelihood of it feeding you something that you both didn’t know and actually like are very low indeed.
I’m saying this as I’ve a friend who specialises in ML and happens to be a huge music fan. He tried this with the latest iteration of Chat GPT several times and was amused to see that around 20% of the time it fed him artists which literally didn’t exist and around 80% of the time it essentially fed him his existing music collection 
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The Quietus online from time to time. Some interesting articles about music and culture.
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For me it’s many of the above and a few more…
Radio 6
Later
Pitchfork
What are you listening to , on this forum
Qobuz app - new releases, press awards, top albums
Qobuz Club - Feed & Spaces
Roon Community - Music section
NME (web) Album Reviews
The Guardian (web) Album Reviews
UK Music Reviews (web)
The Skinny (web) Album reviews
BBC Music Album Reviews (web)
Faroutmagazine.co.uk - Essential Listening
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - rateyourmusic.com
With all of the above I’m never short of something new to listen to and I’ve found some absolute crackers that will stay with me forever. I jacked physical media probably 20 years or more ago and my musical appreciation has exploded since into genres and artists I’d never have considered as within the sphere of my tastes. I know there’s a lot to be argued for sound quality between media ( previous LP12/Lingo/Ittok owner) but I listen to soooo much more music these days, I’d never go back.
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