Music Discovery Guides
How people actually find music they like: why a taste gets stuck, how the algorithms decide, and where the good, unheard stuff hides.
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Why songs get stuck in your head: the earworm science that holds up, the folk advice that does not, and a simple 12-minute test to break the loop for good.
A music rut is usually three things at once: your recommendations, the effort of new songs, and liking what you know. Here is how to break the loop fast.
How Discover Weekly works, in plain words: collaborative filtering plus audio and text analysis, why it repeats artists, and the one thing it structurally cannot do.
How to find underground artists using credit trails, community radio, and small label rosters, plus a fast way to judge a track without being unfair to it.
Last.fm scrobbling logs every track you play to a profile you own. Here is how to set it up, what to do with the data, and how to keep the log private.
How to find new music comes down to three modes: push, pull, and random. Most people only use one. Here is how to run all three and keep what you find.