[jazzyjackson]

I think Bandcamp is neat just for having users' purchases be default public, so I can click on user profiles of people who bought an album and see what other albums they bought. Admittedly I don't discover much this way but I do like the Bandcamp weekly radio shows. Probably the highest density of finding new artists was back when I listened to XLR8R podcasts... Wow I just went to see if they were still around only to find they shut down like last week

https://xlr8r.com/news/xlr8r-has-closed-down-its-subscriptio...

One episode I listened to over and over was Songs To Get Killed In The Woods To, wayback machine cached the MP3 thankfully https://web.archive.org/web/20201223182606/https://xlr8r.com...

I'm a Qobuz subscriber now but the auto playlists let me down more often than not, totally changing up the genre of whatever album just finished. Hard to beat their drm free lossless catalog tho. I think nowadays my primary method of discovering new music is Shazaming tunes in hip thrift stores whenever I visit LA or NYC

[pirates]

In Apple Music I look forward to the playlist of 100% new (to you?) songs that it offers every Friday. The Discovery station is usually good too, but I find more keepers from the Friday playlist than others usually.

Bandcamp is definitely the best for finding completely new artists and genres though, for me at least. Something about their featured “New and Notable” posts makes me willing to just try a new genre or artist, much more readily than other services. And I strongly agree on your point about user profiles being public. The “what’s your favorite song on this album” and “why do you love this album” text fields that you can see all over are full of comments that are just wonderful.