I’m always on the hunt for new music and new places to find the goods. In no particular order, here are my favorite stops around www for tunage.
Spotify DJ
https://support.spotify.com/us/article/dj/
Reddit spotify playlists
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpotifyPlaylists/
Plug in your playlist, get matched with other people https://playlost.fm
Save your playlists incase your preferred music service folds, or you wanna switch and copy playlists over https://soundiiz.com/
Roon is some spendy software ($14/mo or $800 lifetime), but it does a great job of cataloging and streaming all your music files at home, your digital music library: all those mp3 and flac. https://roon.app/en/
If you have a home collection, Media Monkey does a great job of picking up where iTunes got stupid https://www.mediamonkey.com/
If you just wanna play a track or two, you can’t go wrong with foobar2000 https://www.foobar2000.org/
If you don’t want to shell out the $800 above, but still want to stream your music, Subsonic is a long time no brainer: it just works http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
Slightly more expensive than $0, Plex also is worth a look. I dabble with its music features from time to time, it’s pretty, but just doesn’t scratch my itch quite right. $5/mo or $120 lifetime https://www.plex.tv/
Plex came from a for-profit splinter off home theater software XBMC, now MLK own as Kodi. https://kodi.tv/
NPR New Music Friday https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/606254804/new-music-friday
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts https://www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/
Streaming services
Most platforms offer Family Plans. If you can find a couple buddies to split a plan with you, it’s the cheapest way to get ad free. I’ve spent time with Pandora, Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Tidal. Only a short dabble with Amazon Music, they offer many tracks free, but it doesn’t take long to find something you want that’s behind that paywall.
Lossless is becoming a thing. If you have expensive gear ($1000+ home system, $500+ headphones) you’ll want to learn about it. Big dollar amounts! It works out nice because if you aren’t in audio at that level, you probably won’t notice an appreciable difference between “high-def” vs lossless music quality. Lossless streamers, at this moment are: Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited. If you have Bluetooth anywhere in your audio stream, it’s not lossless.