I’ve been cutting out subscriptions and Spotify is the last one I would like to get rid of. I’ve transitioned to buying and downloading my favourite artists songs so I can own the music I love. The only thing keeping me with Spotify at the moment is the Release Radar playlist it creates for you. Basically I want to know if there is a way to get notified when the artists I follow release new music. I’ve been looking and so far I haven’t found a viable alternative.
Band camp sends you updates about artists/producer you bought from. Feel like it’s borderline scam, but may be a way
I bet they’ve got websites with RSS feeds. Pick up an RSS reader and subscribe to their news & announcements page.
Relevant link: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
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That’s my suggestion. It has a special section for new music from the artists you follow. I also find their recommendations fantastic. Found so much new stuff on RYM
A lot of artists have mailers or feeds they maintain - it’s often easiest to just follow them directly.
This is the way to avoid all the spammy apps and services.
- Social Media of them
- YouTube pages owned/operated by them
- Bandcamp
- Mail lists
- A google search every now and again
That’s how I do it. Mainly YouTube and the eMails. But some of the bands I most listen to are more indie/obscure, so they play to their fans more than people on the level of Metalica and Taylor Swift.
https://releasefeed.elomatreb.eu/
https://releasefeed.elomatreb.eu/releases/spotify/Artist IDReplace Artist ID with the string of characters found at the end of the artist’s Spotify URL.
Now this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much!
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7 Digital is a great site to buy music files legally. I use that mainly. Personally I would not buy 500 songs at once, but basically I buy my favs and slowly add songs I really like over time. Innertune is great in the meantime to listen to what you want to without paying a subscription
Musicbutler.io but it’s not free
Most music torrent sites have notifications for artists you follow.
|I wanna know how I can cut out all those pesky artist updates so I can focus on whats new and corporately exciting with Spotify
