Where can I find really good music online?

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Dancer
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Where can I find really good music online?

Post by Dancer »

So far, I've had a hard time finding really good music on portals like Soundcloud or Spotify without any DJ experience.
Only when I search for specific artists, I find them there (and also on Youtube).
Who can give me tips?
By good music I mean any music that is tangibly an expression of the soul. So no computer-generated screaming or yowling.
I just love good music, and it almost doesn't matter what genre.
It can be instrumental, danceable, not standard disco, but uplifting and inspiring.
In the field of classical music I have already found many pearls.
But less in contemporary popular music.
I am happy about all tips, also about single artists or groups that deserve to be heard.
Criteria: Uplifting, lightful, strong, patriotic, heartful.
Even uplifting trance music or heavy metal like metallica, but those are not my dominate genres.
Some of my prefered genres are Alternative, Balkan music (folk), Chillout, Italian and Russian songs, Caféhouse music, dance-music, piano, but also good rock, pop and other.

Thank you for even little hints where to find the brilliants and emeralds!
Now - after organizing my library with MMW - I can't wait to fill it up. (Yesterday I deleted all titles with only 2 ** or less. That shrinked the library to about 50%) :wink:
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IanRTaylorUK
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by IanRTaylorUK »

An old list of potential sources:

Reverb Nation
Sound Cloud
Jamendo
Sound Click
Pure Volume
Band Camp
Noise Trade
Audio Mack
Beat Stars
Spinrilla
Free Music Archive
Internet Archive
DatPiff
HD Tracks
Sound Liaison
Audio Stream
Sound Ike
MP3VA
7Digital

Some of these allow a certain amount of "previewing" before you download or pay.
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Gardner
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by Gardner »

IanRTaylorUK wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:11 am An old list of potential sources:

Reverb Nation
Sound Cloud
Jamendo
Sound Click
Pure Volume
Band Camp
Noise Trade
Audio Mack
Beat Stars
Spinrilla
Free Music Archive
Internet Archive
DatPiff
HD Tracks
Sound Liaison
Audio Stream
Sound Ike
MP3VA
7Digital

Some of these allow a certain amount of "previewing" before you download or pay.
Thank you for sharing this list, I found a lot of good stuff here.
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by IanRTaylorUK »

Thanks for feedback, good to know.

For those you like, you might want to consider adding a "Bookmark" to the "Web" node in MMW5 (or the equivalent in MMW4).
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by Not_tech_savy »

IanRTaylorUK wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:11 am An old list of potential sources:

Reverb Nation
Sound Cloud
Jamendo
Sound Click
Pure Volume
Noise Trade
Audio Mack
Beat Stars
Spinrilla
Free Music Archive
Internet Archive
DatPiff
Sound Liaison
Audio Stream
Sound Ike
MP3VA
7Digital

Some of these allow a certain amount of "previewing" before you download or pay.
I now see 7digitial tends to up convert low quality songs to flac. Have you had any issues?

And would you happen to know of any sites that carry high quality Metal or Hip-hop type genres? Tried band-camp and HD Tracks, not a good selection. 7Digital has a decent amount but after reading reviews I'm worried I'm not getting the quality I'm looking for. (looking to purchase and download, not stream)
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IanRTaylorUK
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by IanRTaylorUK »

Take a look at MP3VA for starters.

On the right of the main screen you have Genres. Select Pop/Rock(?) and then it opens up to show Heavy Metal that in turns opens up to give:

Alternative Metal
Black Metal e.g. https://www.mp3va.com/browse/pop-rock-1 ... -metal-883
British Metal
Death Metal
Doom Metal
Goth Metal
Grindcore
Guitar Virtuoso
Hair Metal
Industrial Metal
Neo-Classical Metal
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Nu Metal
Pop-Metal
Power Metal
Progressive Metal
Punk Metal
Rap-Metal
Scandinavian Metal
Sludge Metal
Speed/Thrash Metal
Stoner Metal
Symphonic Black Metal

In my experience most MP3 are 320 kBps. Hope this is enough Metal for you!
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by Not_tech_savy »

IanRTaylorUK wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 3:36 am Take a look at MP3VA for starters.

On the right of the main screen you have Genres. Select Pop/Rock(?) and then it opens up to show Heavy Metal that in turns opens up to give:

Alternative Metal
Black Metal e.g. https://www.mp3va.com/browse/pop-rock-1 ... -metal-883
British Metal
Death Metal
Doom Metal
Goth Metal
Grindcore
Guitar Virtuoso
Hair Metal
Industrial Metal
Neo-Classical Metal
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Nu Metal
Pop-Metal
Power Metal
Progressive Metal
Punk Metal
Rap-Metal
Scandinavian Metal
Sludge Metal
Speed/Thrash Metal
Stoner Metal
Symphonic Black Metal

In my experience most MP3 are 320 kBps. Hope this is enough Metal for you!
Thanks guy!
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by IanRTaylorUK »

Something I meant to do a while back. Most of the resources from my Web Node in MMW4 roughly sorted.

7digital United Kingdom https://uk.7digital.com/
AllMusic.com http://www.allmusic.com
Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/b?node=163856011&tag=songsdb-20
Audio Mack https://audiomack.com/
Beat Stars https://www.beatstars.com/
CDUniverse.com http://www.cduniverse.com/default.asp?s ... lk_SongsDB
DatPiff :: The Authority in Free Mixtapes https://www.datpiff.com/
DebugView - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysint ... /debugview
eMusic http://www.emusic.com/
Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/home
HDTracks.com http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=12907 ... 47&M=17923
Internet Archive https://archive.org/
Jamendo Music https://www.jamendo.com/start
MM5 Test builds (5.0.1 beta builds available) - MediaMonkey forum viewtopic.php?f=30&t=86639&sd=d
Noise Trade https://www.pastemagazine.com/noisetrade/music/
Pure Volume https://www.purevolume.com/?edg-c=1
Radio Cast https://www.rcast.net/dir
Radio Forest http://radioforest.net
ReverbNation : Artists First https://www.reverbnation.com/
Shout Cast http://directory.shoutcast.com
Sound Click https://www.soundclick.com/
Sound Liaison Music Shop https://www.soundliaison.com/
Soundike https://www.soundike2.com/
Spinrilla https://spinrilla.com/spinrilla/playlis ... uypV1WAMJP
View Issues - MantisBT https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view ... g_page.php

For those that require a more up-to-date browser, just right click in MMW4 then Open In...

Table sorted using DB Browser (SQL Lite) to edit the Web table of a copy of the MM.DB then replacing actual MM.DB after renaming.
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by ximuco »

Sound Cloud was the only resource I used to find music, but now I have a huge library of websites, thanks. I didn't even imagine that there are so many places to find music online.
Digitalman
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by Digitalman »

Hope this is not too far off topic (newbee here and thanks for the great app) was just wondering, since the OP had mentioned just musical notes songs with no screaming or yelling, have you ever heard of a band called YELLO ? One of their very first albums on the cover pic it is a pair of big lips, there are a lot of great tracks on this album. Be forewarned that it's sub heavy so if you have a powered sub you might wanna turn it down, or risk stuff falling off of shelves, pics on walls crashing down, etc...LOL
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by MikeTaku »

What are some music recommendations with heavy bass but no screaming or yelling?
Digitalman
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Re: Where can I find really good music online?

Post by Digitalman »

Like I posted above, check out the band called yello. Their very first album has a lot of what you're looking for. But I've never had the chance to listen to any of their stuff after their first album. The first album has a big pair of red lips on the cover. You remember that song they used to play on commercials on TV.... The "oh yeah" one with a lot of heavy drum solos? Yello is the band that made that song. And it is yello, there isn't any "w" on the end of the name. Check out a track on their first album called "give me your gold" and in fact I like every track on that album. Some people think it's latin music with all the drumming and bass in it, but the fact is it's just great music. There's more musical notes than singing on all of the tracks. I wished I could find some music that's comparable to their first album, but I don't have the funds to be buying a lot of new music. Check it out and let me know what you think of it.
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