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Are Spotify and Soundcloud valid answers or is that too general, lol?

I find Spotify’s discovery features pretty great, especially the music that it auto plays after you’ve listened to an album or whatever. It sometimes goes off piste or into a bit of a loop after a while, but I usually discover at least one thing to check out from it. The recommendations under playlists are good too, I have playlists for different genres and it’ll often surface interesting stuff. Artist/song radio can be good. I don’t use Discover Weekly any more, I used to love it but mine got polluted with crap somehow and never really recovered.

I listen to a lot of DJ sets on Soundcloud. If I come across an artist I like, I will check out their Soundcloud. The majority of producers in the genres I like (techno, hypnotic stuff, ambient) also DJ, so I’ll listen to their sets and it’ll often lead me to more interesting stuff if there’s a track I like. Kind of a fractal of discovery heh. There are some good radio shows on there too from smaller online radio stations (plus some bigger ones like NTS and Rinse) so sometimes I’ll just put something on at random. I actually think Soundcloud is a pretty crap site, it could be much better at recommendations and discovery, but it does the job and there is so much on there.

I am just getting back into DJing so I’ll probably be using Bandcamp a lot more again, on there I’ll trawl an artist or label’s back catalogue, and sometimes look what other people who reviewed a certain release have in their collection. Again, could be a much better site for discovery but it has tonnes of great stuff.

YouTube can be good for listening to stuff that isn’t on the other platforms but their recommendation algorithm is no good for me.

Also lucky enough to have friends with similar musical interests and we share tracks in a chat we have set up.