How do you discover music? Do you still listen to the radio?

[Dc2006ster]

We listen to FM radio everyday and our favourite music station is CKUA a donor supported station in Alberta, Canada. They play a great mix of music that you do not get on many radio stations with just the occasional sponsor recognition. They do broadcast over the internet at ckua.com I have discovered a lot of music here. Well worth checking out.

 

[JamesMike]

We listen to FM radio everyday and our favourite music station is CKUA a donor supported station in Alberta, Canada. They play a great mix of music that you do not get on many radio stations with just the occasional sponsor recognition. They do broadcast over the internet at ckua.com I have discovered a lot of music here. Well worth checking out.

Thanks for the tip! I listen to Pandora, AM and FM, also Short-wave when working overseas.

 

[dk001]

Radio very very seldom.
Usually I pick up a tune from a show and do some digging or see the recommends from Amazon Prime or Google Play (lots of free stuff including new artists there).

 

[Technarchy]

Pandora or Google Play Music, with youtube and regular radio sometimes.

 

[rhett7660]

Pandora or Google Play Music, with youtube and regular radio sometimes.

I have actually started to do more youtube since the reception for my phone at work is really bad. I just start off with a band I like and let it play through the upcoming songs and bands.

 

[Adam552]

Internet radio/YouTube autoplay >.<

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

I ususally find the entry for the genre I am curious about on Wikipedia or google "best artists [genre*], and then just go through them all on youtube. Usually it is quite quick to see if I like the style and the lead singer. If I find one, then I usually get their highest rated or newest album, and then take it from there.

But Google has become really agressive with the removal of songs on Youtube now, so I may switch to iTunes, even though the store is *awful* to browse.

 

[sdilley14]

I still listen to the radio. I find that I spend a lot of my time in the car, and I don't have a very generous data plan so streaming services are out of the question. So I kind of passively listen to the radio on short trips around town. Radio still serves as a good way to discover some new music. Also, I've always been a fan of the sound quality I get on the radio. There's something about it, I can't really put my finger on...but hearing music on the radio just sounds sweeter to my ears.

 

[ThisBougieLife]

I listen to online radio--I often discover new music from Pandora, from browsing around YouTube and iTunes, and from posting on forums

 

[Tech198]

Hey man, radio's cool as school

Getting my head out of the clouds, i still listen to local internet radio, but if u'r talking about analog AM/FM... lol

 

[iShater]

When I am not listening to specific bands (via Amazon Prime, or my own) I use Pandora and Amazon Prime Music to listen to different things.
Radio is for my NPR fix

 

[zone23]

I go look at the new albums on Tuesdays in iTunes, then go find them in Apple Music.

 

[HDFan]

Since I'm interested in uncompressed sound and "reference" recordings with the clearest and best audio I find titles in a variety of places and then try them out via Tidal. If it's just a track I just listen to it from there; if it's a whole album I may buy it. There are cases where even though I don't like the music the sound is so spectacular that I get it even though I might not like the music that much. This works since I listen either through my Oppo PM-1's or my GoldenEar Triton Ones. A great recording makes me feel that I'm at a live concert. Since I go to a lot of concerts I can easily compare what I've just heard in a concert with a recording of that same track by the same artist. So I'll just crank up Tidal on the drive home from the concert and listen to that artist's recordings to see how well it compares with the live version and then play it on the Goldenears via my Oppo and Tidal when I get home.

Places I look:

1) Search Amazon for "reference recordings".
2) Look at websites that review home theater, audio, and audio recordings. Since these guys review equipment and recordings for a living they get recordings from everywhere and have a lot of experience in evaluating the best sound. For example a headphone reviewer might mention that the first test track he goes to for bass response is "Sleep like a Child" by Joss Stone. Or for midrange "Murder in the Red Barn" by Tom Waits. These are tracks that you almost never ever hear on mass media streaming sites or radio. Is Abbado Conducts Mahler Symphonies 1-7 [Blu-ray] the greatest classical recording ever made? At least one reviewer and classical website says so.

Places I look:
Audiophile Audition
SoundBard
The Audiophiliac
Computer Audiophile
"Best Headphone Test Tracks" Forbes
AudioWorld Online
Classical CD Review Which has a page of "Sonic Hall of Fame"
InnerFidelity
Stereophile
Analogplanet
Hometheater review
hifiplus
avsforum
audiostream
sound and vision

3) DTS demo disks on E-Bay generally have some tracks that have incredible DTS-MA audio.

4) Tidal has a playlist with what's new that week

For music that I just like I use

5) Movie soundtracks. Peter Sarstedt's "Where Do You Go To My Lovely" was in a movie I watched a while back. If sound hound doesn't find it the credits usually work. [One thing I hate about Apple TV is that it hides the credits in Netflix.]

6) I heard someone in a parked car listening to something I liked, turned on sound hound and found "Lucifer's Eyes" by T.O.L.D. which then led me to Youtube and Amber Run which led me to ....