. I need to upgrade my record player. I have a basic Victrola that is skipping with my new record club albums. Looking for recommendations for a new one…thinking $200 range.

So one thing I’ve gotten into over the last few years is making a song-a-day mix. I got the idea from ex-MTV host Dave Holmes, and all you do is pick one song each day… something you hear, something you think of, something tied to an event/news item/personal milestone, etc. and you just keep building over 365. At the end of each year (or each month, even) not only do you have a sweet - and often very random! - mix but afterwards you can look back on it and re-live the time… be it “oh yeah, that’s the day I watched ____” or “I was out at my local and this song just hit the moment perfectly!” Just sharing in case anyone here wants to give it a go moving forward! Or maybe you do it too? If anyone is interested, here’s how my year started (and, yes, thank you @John Richards for more than a couple of these!) https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/01-january-2026/pl.u-b3b84WNUbAvLP https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6LhKcbjOy0CkY4mJFazeCT

Hi - my name is Deanna. Love the idea of this community. Right now my favorite music is pretty much anything off Snocaps new release. My nephew and I were recently talking about how hard it can sometimes be to find new music we like. We don’t find Spotify or Apple Music especially helpful and it’s hard for me to listen to radio like KEXP during the day because of my job, and for him college. I’m hoping this community will be a valuable resource in my music appreciation journey.

I'm not sure how we're supposed to use this forum, but I was watching a Radiohead video and it made me think about my favorite one -- this is the first time I ever heard of Radiohead, it was on MTV Beach House, playing Creep. It seemed like the audience had no idea what they were going hear. The sound of the guitars is just fantastic. I love the crunchiness.