[plastic-enjoyer]

> There is no joy of discovery of new music that you haven't heard.

I have my problems with Spotify, but this is not one of them. I discover new artists, or long forgotten artists, regularly - even some weird obscure shit like Tänzelcore.

But I have to agree, that the magic of discovering new music is not the same as, for example, digging records in a record store or via obscure boards and platforms (remember FF-Shrine?)

[parasti]

How? What's your secret? It's actively fighting me from discovering anything new. "Hey we'll show this artist you stopped listening to two years ago on your start screen forever. Wanna jump back in?" That's Spotify to me.

[enimodas]

My spotify homepage has had a "discover weekly" playlist for like 10 years. Found some nice things there, changes every week.

[roryokane]

If you liked FF-Shrine, there are some active successor sites. Search for Sitting on Clouds (which is like FFShrine’s Galbadia Hotel) and SquidBoard (a forum).

[plastic-enjoyer]

Holy shit, thank you! FF-Shrine was phenomenal back then to find even the most obscure rearrangements of video game music. I know, that there has to be some backup archive of FF-Shrine, which I stumbled upon a few years ago, but unfortunately didn't save.