if you don’t like listening to music then sure it is tedious.

Of course, you know me so so well.

Basically you want to be handed a list of stuff you are already going to like with no effort on your part, that isn’t really tedium, more laziness on your part.

See? That was 100% TOTALLY what my comment was about, glad to see your reading comprehension works so well you have no need to assume things to make them fit into your argument.

There are more ways to listen and discover music than ever before. In the past you had mainly radio or word of mouth and even then your exposure was extremely narrow based on the radio stations tastes. You now have so many other avenues for exploration and discovery.

There’s no need to comment about this, since you already assumed and decided for me and you must be right because YOU MUST BE RIGHT, so I’ll just leave you and your right assumptions to believe whatever you want so… gOoD vIbEs OnLy, amirite?
I’ll just go to listen to music I like BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE LISTENING TO MUSIC.

Basically proving my point about it being tedious but trying to force some hopium into it.

I’m not going to pay for a service for ONE reason only, but yeah, I use the free version on Spotify for the weekly discovery and then I don’t open it till the next week, sometimes there’s some good shit… Most of the time there isn’t.

Deezer used to have a nice discovery algorithm, then they shitted on it and then they made it fully pay to use so I haven’t it since then.

I’ve even tried some websites recommended on lemmy, not just the usual services, but I’ve got a similar outcome anyway

While I agree, I’d like to object a little to this:

an inability to find things you like from a selection that is only ever expanding and becoming more diverse as time goes on.

It’s extremely tedious to look for new music, since most algorithms seems to fixate on “oh you like this song? Here, let me suggest all the discography of the artist and these artists that are barely similar yet non or their songs sound like that one you liked” and radio stations only play what they get paid for.

If you like a specific genre it might be easier, but for someone who likes songs instead of genres or artists… It’s a fucking pain.