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[–] 1 point 1 day ago (5 children)

Thanks, good info. I'll look into the container thing. I just refuse the browser cookies as a default. So I don't get any recommendations on the browser.

I'm same as you with music, I have very specific tastes, to the point that my best friends don't bother recommending anything to me anymore lol. Or if they do, they say "I know you probably wont like this but I've been listening to __________ recently" haha. I'll see if I can find motivation to let youtube recommend something for me. I did use YouTube Music with Morphe for about half a year and.... it wasn't very good. I even did the whole "don't recommend this" dance, but it still kept recommending the artist, just different albums/songs. But maybe it was a case of not using it enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    The last couple selected recommendations I got from Youtube were Tribal Baroque's ‘Gypsy Dance’ and Hermeto Pascoal's ‘Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira)’ — both only five days ago. Just those two justify the years I've spent nurturing my algo.

    For better or worse, the recs are the killer feature of Youtube. One has to look through some junk to find the gems, but they are there.

    I never bothered with the 'don’t recommend' thing, except maybe when Youtube was stuck for weeks in a bout of Louis Rossmann vids after I watched one or two of them. Instead, I just choose what I actually watch or add to playlists.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    I wonder if theres a service that allows me to send my last.fm or listenbrainz profile to be scanned and tell it to recommend stuff from a certain time period. The last.fm and listenbrainz recommend system is awful. They operate on the level of "oh you listened to this one Finnish artist, here's ten Finnish artists but from genres that you have literally never played at all, enjoy!"

    Anyway, I'm glad you found good stuff :) I'll see if I can trick youtube to give me recommends, maybe if I make a playlist, play it through a few times, it'll give me something lol

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    I mean, there's Libre-fm, but it doesn't seem too active in development. Idk how good its recommendations are.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    Yeah I have that one as well but its pretty spartan. To be honest, I haven't even logged in like a year. I've been using last.fm since 2005, listenbrainz since a few months ago but it had a thing that imported all my scrobbles from last.fm. Listenbrainz (and musicbrainz) is a cool project and I'm looking forward to what they come up with in the future. Last.fm is great as well, especially since they got back to independent recently. Both are cool in their own ways, so I'm gonna stick to them, just wished their recommend system was better.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Frankly, for myself I'm mostly using Bandcamp's and YouTube's recommendations, and also often posts from a local Facebook-like social network, by genre — which are mostly reposts from Bandcamp, but nicely curated.

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