Like - Uploading Songs To Youtube
The best resource for easily streaming music isn’t Spotify, it’s YouTube. They’re both pretty miserable with ads if you don’t have premium, and Spotify has made sharing playlists really convenient. But if you’re going by their respective libraries, they don’t really compare. People say Spotify has everything, but by that exaggeration YouTube has everything everything, thanks to avid fans and record collectors who want to share music with the world.1 Except, of course, YouTube doesn’t actually have everything. Sure, if you’re looking for mainstream and relatively independent things, then yes YouTube’s got it all. But once you start to venture out towards lesser known music, particularly older songs that didn’t get wide releases, you’ll find holes. It’s good to fill them if you have have the track and some time to spare. It takes less than 10 minutes to rip a video in iMovie (or whatever software) and upload it. And the songs you post may never get that many views, but they’ll also be there for you to easily share and, more importantly, for someone else to one day find—the way you’ve done so many times before.
“Almost Dead” by Sad Simon is the most recent song I’ve put on YouTube. Here are the other ones I’ve shared.
The last song is a special edit of Mitski’s “My Love Mine All Mine” I asked my friend Jonny (aka Break Mode) to make for a mix CD I gave my girlfriend for Christmas last year.
Three fun YouTube channels to explore are: Automaticamore’s Italo Channel, Üllar Siir’s rare gems, and 2trancecentral.