I keep ending up with AI music in my playlist when exploring for me music. What is your workflow to avoid it? Searching DDG for me has been more bandwidth intensive than I like...

Some background. My favorite song is a song I haven't heard yet. And my appetite sways wildly. One month it's old school urban rap, the next it's kpop, and then Nordic death metal and so on.

I never know what I'll be in the mood for but I'll find a thread with a song I don't know and use it to build play lists to see what I find and sometimes I find trash gems that way.

This last time our friend group watched Eurovision 2026 together and some of those songs are bangers. One of them led to adding a few artists built off of playlists from that song I really liked, and they all ended up being AI... damnit!

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Whenever I'm feeling a new genre I don't have a playlist for I find an already made one. Old blogs and forums and such have so many curated lists. Lots of music communities exist and are still updating lists with new artists. From there I either find lists recommending songs/artists similar to the ones I liked (again plenty of human curated lists) or get recommendations from friends.

I follow some of my absolute favorite artists and they post inspiration playlists when they're making new albums from time to time too that I'll often listen to.

Basically I just don't randomly search for songs.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    I hadn't considered that... Any communities/blogs you recommend?

    I normally avoid that stuff as an introvert but reading their stuff wouldn't hurt. I'm not talking after all.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not really. I don't follow any specific ones. Just go hunting through DDG searches and stuff when the mood for something new hits me. Though, they're are a few music communities here on Lemmy including an eternal playlist one where people post more songs all the time.

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