I split up my communities pretty fine-grained: !reign_fc@lemmy.world for my club, !nwsl@lemmy.world for my league, !ussoccer@lemmy.world for my international side, etc. At the time, we thought the glorious revolution was just days away, and we’d have a gajillion users and we needed to be ready. In hindsight, I regret this decision and wish I had just created a single overarching woso community for everything — like !womenshockey@reddthat.com. There just aren’t a lot of users, and having a fewer, more broadly focused communities allow for larger user bases that interact with each other more often. So, if it were me, I’d post to c/music and try my best to feel comfortable taking up space.

I feel it depends a lot more on how many songs you’d be posting compared to the other activity in c/music.

I’d say post some in the main comm, and if you really want to share a boatload with of songs (like multiple everyday for the foreseeable future) create your own community and cross post a select few to the main category.

It might be nice to have a community a little broader than just Chinese music, like for non western music or maybe East Asian music.

If they’re not too many songs I’d just post in c/music. There’s also !nonenglishmusic@piefed.social where they’ll probably appreciate it more, just check the rules because they require a specific format.

Depends on the population number and temperance of the community. In your example, the Mandarin songs would likely be ignored. However, there’s a chicane somebody checks one out. Whereas if you made a comm for Mandarin music, those same users wouldn’t sub to it Abe would never see it.

Currently listening to Japanese music. I’m one of the ones who would give it a chance. I used to listen to a Chinese album I Shazamed in a Chinese restaurant once. I’ve long since forgotten what it was, but it was very pleasant to listen to, so I may try to find it again.

IMO doing both is probably fine

It doesn’t hurt to make a sub-category community, but please also post to c/Music. I certainly hope that on Lemmy we can stop defaulting to the majority language and culture.