Ignore the major labels, there is a vibrant world of new music being released on indie labels! http://avant.fm. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Tl;dr: crapshoot as to whether you get featured, but worth it if you do. My personal experience with it was positive. I posted my site on PH over the summer (plug: https://avant.fm, a customizable feed of new releases from the best indie music labels). After a couple weeks it was featured for a day. Not sure how that happened, but someone with some pull "hunted" it I guess. About 30 other sites were featured that... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Super cool. Would love a "has lyrics" feature (for my player, https://avant.fm). Always wonder how hard that would be. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

> 3. Discovery is not a viable product I guess define viable? The future has got to hold more ways to interact with music than the main apps of Spotify, Apple Music, etc., which push music in a very specific, generic way. Mostly around top 40, opaque personalizations, algorithms and “algotorial”. We’re never getting back to a place where your identity is defined by which record store you go to. But... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

PlaylistMap! https://playlistmap.com/ It has a really big database full of independent spotify playlist curators, so you can always find a ton of relevant playlists, even if your music is specific to a certain sub-genre. It also has a pitch tool that gives you templates where you can jsut fill in the blanks, which makes it super easy to write a good pitch. There's a free version and paid plans that give you more... Source: almost 3 years ago

Pitch to playlists curators to trigger Spotify algorithm > I'm using playlistmap.com and it was great for me last release (got 2 placements with 8K Followers in total). Source: about 3 years ago