That genuinely makes me so happy to hear. I really appreciate you sticking around for so long too! I hope this acts as a treasure trove for whoever stumbles upon it.

Just wanted to say thanks for sharing Spotify news! I love the work you put into staying on top of it for everyone. It’s a really cool thing you do for us

Totally agree. I don’t have the energy to fight a battle on his behalf, so I put it out there to avoid it. I found it to be helpful for people starting out and wanted to share it.

Thank, you! I love getting recommendations too. I checked them both out and those were great suggestions! I’ll be adding them to my wishlist.

Make sure to check out the album! It’s equally as good

It entirely depends where you live. You can pay certain organizations for blanket rights to most songs and it’s extremely expensive.

Some options if you still want to broadcast are:

• Use royalty free music/public domain
• Go to Bandcamp/YouTube/Soundcloud and ask smaller artists permission to play their music on your station
• Ask around your local scene and see if artists around your area give you permission to play their music.
• Roll the dice and hope for obscurity to keep you safe

Currently I opted to put everything behind a password and only use it for myself. Once I’m more confident on building solid programming, I might look into starting a station for local and small artists with their permission.

Thanks for sharing. I wanted something like this

Last one: RhythmVerse

Also the spreadsheet if you aren’t already aware.

Yeah, I honestly don’t like the downvote button for that reason. I don’t care about my post getting hated, I’d just like to know why.

I did somehow. Thanks for the heads up, it’s fixed now

Hey, sorry that happened and for the late reply, but I really liked it! I hadn’t heard any of the songs listed before.

Thanks for subbing! I really just like sharing music I find. I’ll be making more posts off and on. I take breaks from social media every now and then.

Yes, I’m around. I wouldn’t mind the help since I’ve been sorting out a lot of personal things lately.

Yes, I’m around. I wouldn’t mind the help since I’ve been sorting out a lot of personal things lately.

Freaking Lemmy wouldn’t preserve the formatting on the lyrics, so here’s a link instead

Me too. It was a great little gem to find.

I also recommend checking out the lists on Rate Your Music for discovery!

Try it out if you’re ever bored! I used to play it a lot when I was younger, but like twice a decade when I remember it, It’s fun for 30 mins.

The method I use for genre tags is:

• Rate Your Music - is by far my most favorite and preferred genre list
• Everynoise - although discontinued, it still has everything I need for Spotify’s genre categorization by typing in an artist
• Last.fm - I don’t really prefer this anymore, but if I don’t have a choice, this isn’t bad.
• Finally, If I can’t find it on any of these, I use my intuition and go looking through the Rate Your Music genres and try to find the most accurate.

Even with everynoise and last.fm, I still match whatever they spit out to rate your music equivalents to make it easier for anyone searching the community. That way everything is consistent and search will bring up every result.