How to search for new music?

[stax76]

I listen to music every evening, the best part of this is having new and exciting music.

The process of finding new music isn't easy, I download music channels and playlists from YouTube and listen to it from beginning to end with mpv (mpv.net), I use some private mpv script and have built a private CLI tool to ensure I don't listen to something uninteresting a second or multiple times.

The data in my CLI tool shows that I listened to 130,000 songs. My collection is about 1000 songs.

I have many different playlists for different genres and artists, they can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/@stax76/playlists

You can find a full list of my songs here:

https://github.com/stax76/software-list

You can download my collection with the following command line (assuming you have a recent version of yt-dlp installed)

yt-dlp --ignore-errors --no-mtime --extract-audio --output='./%(title)s.%(ext)s' 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnVfFuh_eWkEaqkErUl2bROUlkqxCP3il'

It's about 90-95% of what I got on my SSD drive.

Just be sure to buy a license for the music after you find something you like.
I use Amazon for that, though there are probably better shops for buying music.

I'm always looking for new music channels and playlists, so if you know good ones please let me know, preferably YouTube, but other sources like Spotify are okay too.