stablekraft.app might be the most QA curated v4v music app - it only lists music that has been played on v4v music shows so has been vetted by them already.
@ChadF and 33 others right?
I dislike that
@Wavlake is essentially a centralized platform and only lists it's own music - not the full index. Much of my music is self-hosted RSS so does not appear in Wavlake.
I agree with your thoughts that music discovery in the apps is lacking and also the prevelence of AI slop is frustrating. Also I have not found a good way of being alerted when an artist I like releases a new track.
@Fountain has the best native app for podcasting2.0 music that I have found but it still needs work.
lnbeats.com and v4vmusic.com are both great pure music websites and can be installed as an app (PWA). They both have different features I like.
There is also Nostr Music that is built on nostr protocol and I'm aware of a handful of apps supporting that.
But I'm still finding my way here on decentralized music and social media protocols. I'm sure I am missing lots.