All you've gotto do is enter your age when you sign up and every song's a winner! What does that say about me?

That, like many, you only had ears for new music from 15 - 25 and after that you got old and stopped listening.

It doesn't say anything about you. That's what they advertise isn't it? If they send top 40 for your age group down the line to you and you like all of it, it might say something about your taste in aural pleasure

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kiteboy dave said..
That, like many, you only had ears for new music from 15 - 25 and after that you got old and stopped listening.

Can you recommend any streaming sites to gently ease me into the best of the later decades? I can't handle Triple J for more than 5 minutes.

Lying about your age improves Pandora's tune diversity

Always listen to the J's. Whist some of the hosts give me the irrits.

I'm talking about you- Matt and Alex, as a national broadcaster, let's have some diversity please. Not just Leftie dribble.

Anyway, so since 2013 I have been using Spotify, and listen to a bunch of new music at work daily.

Every song I have enjoyed on the J's and other set lists, I add to my yearly play list.

I also have a playlist with high school tunes, ampage tunes, scremo tunes, chill tunes, a Slayer set list and so on.

I end up with about 500 songs each year that I love. A lot of great new music out there.

Try the channel "Adult alternative radio" on Pandora

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Ian K said..

kiteboy dave said..
That, like many, you only had ears for new music from 15 - 25 and after that you got old and stopped listening.

Can you recommend any streaming sites to gently ease me into the best of the later decades? I can't handle Triple J for more than 5 minutes.

I'd rather Double J these days, which is like JJJ for oldies. Channel 201 on your teev.

SomaFM is a great one, every channel a winner.

somafm.com/

For some reason if I'm working I really like "mission control" sometimes, just ambient stuff with long tapes of actual astronaut conversations, like when mission control is talking them through a complex procedure on a spacecraft or on the moon. Strangely good.

Also try Soundcloud, depending on your music style. There's lots of electronic but for example you can go 'top 50' then choose your style. You can see there's hundreds of genres in the list so it's not just dance, even though that's the most popular. There's heaps of groups too which gather styles together, plus hashtags that do something similar. You can follow artists you like, then you'll get what they like in your feed. I like to download 20-40hrs at a time from soundcloud and then listen at leisure. There are apps that let you download even if they don't provide a link.

My wife pays for spotify, ($10/m) so we have accounts everywhere. I use it a bit, for example to stream to my car via bluetooth. The only issue with sharing accounts is sometimes I'll have tech n9ne playing in my car and chet faker will start up because she's listening at work. then we'll have a bit of a war and I'll choose increasingly hardcore stuff while she goes for more and more girly stuff until someone gives up.

Thanks KD, I'll try some of those, even $10 / month is a lot less that we used to spend back in the day on recorded music. Hardcopies of music? Can't remember where or when I last passed by a record store.

Yeah I spent thousands on CDs, and records & tapes before that.

CD's are pretty awful unless you treat them like your firstborn, seriously if they ever touched anything but the player or their cover then they instantly scratched. Funny they were marketed as indestructable when they came out.

I remember the take off of the internet, the mp3 and the mp3 player. It became all about who could amass the best music collection.

Now you think ... why would you bother even collecting mp3s when for a nominal amount like $10/m you can access the world's best collection?

Spotify, if you go that way, is great as underoath says you can make playlists but you can also get others' playlists.

Heaps here
www.reddit.com/r/spotify/