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!

  • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Never stumbled upon AI generated music ever.

    I have my local library with ripped CDs and pirated music mostly from the 2010s and below.

    When I feel like discovering new music, I

    • browse forums to find arists similar to those I already listen to
    • I search for artists that have been featured in a collab in songs I already listen to
    • Or, I use ListenBrainz’s Weekly Exploration tab when I’m feeling bored.

    No streaming bullshit, AI algorithms made to keep me hooked, and definetly no AI music to be seen or heard.

      • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        Also +1 to the guy that mentioned to listen to your local music scene! I have as many smaller local artists as I possibly can in my library. I’m always looking for random stickers on the streets or festival posters, and then I get home and look all of them up to see if they’re my jam.