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Look for alternativesYou don't have to buy the consumption-designed shiny discs from the biggest store. Check out the alternative sources, e.g. small privately-owned record labels instead.
Ask yourself: what is the kind of music I like? What music evokes a lot of response in you, what do I dig? Be selfish. It's your taste, and nobody elses. The biggest hurdle is to find out exactly what you are looking for. Then find bands who do that kind of music. A good resource for starting your hunting is to put your favorite artists to All Music Guide and checking out the artists from the same genre.
You might be surprised how many good artists there are in various small labels and generally outside the "evil media machine". Depends on your taste of music though.
And besides, if you buy quality music that you very much like mainly for listening (because it gives you something personally), and not just some noise engineered for instant consumption, you'll be much happier.
The point is NOT to just buy music, but to find from a store music which gives YOU nice experiences.
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Allmusicguide.com
Now and again, I find All music guide and their "related artists" categories to be quite useful for this purpose.
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For crikey's sake
Doesn't anyone pay attention to anything? WMP gets its information from AMG (the All Music Guide). Just lookie at the little "AMG" in the media player when WMP grabs text info from MS' text info server. They use their own protocol and service, and their data comes from AMG. Just look at the data you get from WMP and compare it to what you see on AMG's web site, and it becomes bloody obvious.
BTW, DVDs *do not* always have text info on them. In fact, they rarely do. You'd think they would have fixed the problem CDs have by actually putting useful text info on DVDs, but they didn't. Nor did they put cover art, or even a unique identifier, on the DVD. This screw-up means there will be a definite market for DVD info lookup services. -
Re:Is this too easy to implement as a filter bypasYeah, but when you searched for French trance, club/dance band (it says on AMG, anyway) BBE you'd get processed Swedish music food Abba, and OOIOO would vanish completely (although, from the description, that may or may not be a bad thing -- "experimental noisemaking" indeed!)
On the bright side, Polish speakers would probably find it a seamless transition.
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Re:Is this too easy to implement as a filter bypasYeah, but when you searched for French trance, club/dance band (it says on AMG, anyway) BBE you'd get processed Swedish music food Abba, and OOIOO would vanish completely (although, from the description, that may or may not be a bad thing -- "experimental noisemaking" indeed!)
On the bright side, Polish speakers would probably find it a seamless transition.
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Re:Is this too easy to implement as a filter bypasYeah, but when you searched for French trance, club/dance band (it says on AMG, anyway) BBE you'd get processed Swedish music food Abba, and OOIOO would vanish completely (although, from the description, that may or may not be a bad thing -- "experimental noisemaking" indeed!)
On the bright side, Polish speakers would probably find it a seamless transition.
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Best music shopping site
Insound is the snazziest music shopping site I've come across. I'm not familiar with your progmetalwhatever, but for stuff that I'm interested in (minimalism, ambient, Japanese noise, improv, esoteric older stuff)---as well as basic college radio faves---Insound is great. They have an embedded interface to the (apparently defunct) All Music Guide, so you can learn a lot about artists that you've only heard of in passing.