Tired of Your Music? Change the Sort.

[James Edward]

Howdy All,
Just throwing this out there- I recently went through some iPad changes, id changes, etc. These changes reset the sort types- by date added, by alphabetization, by artist, by album, etc. Even with 3,000 songs in iTunes, and a few thousand in Tidal, I found myself hitting play in the same narrow band of music. The other day my wife said "you know you play a lot of the same music".
With all the changes, the default settings in my iTunes and Tidal libraries were reset, and I'm hearing a lot of stuff I haven't played in a long time.
It's refreshing to say the least. I still like to explore new music via Tidal, but we all have that core of music we like. Mix it up via sorting- you'd be surprised.

[Nick B]

I get in the same rut of playing the same tunes and don't use as much of Roon's capability as I should. Speaking of Apple IDs, how did you get it resolved?

[mresseguie]

I, too, notice from time to time that I'm listening to the same (or very similar) songs. Recently, I've been going to the bottom of each artist's page (on TIDAL) to find related artists, and have discovered quite a few who are new to me. I have connected my BDP-103 connected to my system for ages, so my CDs have languished. There must be a dozen as yet unopened CDs lying around. 

[rollo]

  Seems that the same ole CDs are spun. When I am breaking a piece in the same CD is played over and over til broken in.


charles

[rollo]

  Forgot to mention Qobuz. For me streaming is my way of finding and listening to new music. Still prefer the dedicated transport/DAC presentation. Close do not get me wrong bu tno cigar. If I hear a good recording I buy the CD.


charles

[Nick B]

i've posted it before, i will post it again - best station on planet earth and they save their playlist history for 2 weeks, so you can go back and look up something that caught your eye/ear. and you can see what's playing in real time on your fone as well as on your computer:

https://www.fip.fr/

higher bitrate feed (nice w/an internet tuna w/digital out into a dac):
http://icecast.radiofrance.fr/fip-hifi.aac

doug s.

Thanks for the reminder, Doug. It's been a while since I've tuna'd in and it is fun to listen to.
Nick

[James Edward]

Yes Doug, thanks. I am enjoying the site very much. Since I enjoy some things from every genre, it's quite an embarrassment of riches. If others haven't tried it yet, please do. Great stuff.