How do you decide what to listen to? Same old stuff?


I have trouble deciding which movie or ice cream I should buy.  Wine decisions are also challenging.

And then I sit down with Quobuz and surf through stuff hoping to find something wonderful to listen to - it's really hard.  Lots of really nice pictures but that doesn't help.  my time is Limited and I don't wanna make bad decisions it takes a lot of time to listen to music.  I have a wide variety of stuff I've listened to previously but I don't wanna keep listening to the same old stuff all the time.

I love it when others give examples of what they've listened to so I've written down those a few times and it works out.

So many music choices, so much to choose from.   

emergingsoul

If you want surefire like, stick with what you know you like. 

If you feel adventurous, try new material, with the understanding that you will NOT like most of it, but you may make a cool new find. True for wine as for music.

I don't stream, but rather use bandcamp recommendations by artists whom I like, and also from YouTube discussions. Again >95% is not to my liking.

If I can’t decide I use Roon random play.  Or  Roon radio.  I do this a lot. 

+1 mapman.

 

I have a large library of both Qobuz, Tidal steams, and at least 3k cd rips, Roon shuffle/random play either within genres or total collection. More than enough music here for a lifetime.

 

For new additions, mostly get this from my local university student radio station or another university affiliated classical music radio station.

Radio Paradise, sometimes I just randomly scroll through all my albums in Roon until something catches my eye.  Check out the What's on your turntable, in your cd player, etc. threads.