I feel it depends a lot more on how many songs you’d be posting compared to the other activity in c/music.

I’d say post some in the main comm, and if you really want to share a boatload with of songs (like multiple everyday for the foreseeable future) create your own community and cross post a select few to the main category.

It might be nice to have a community a little broader than just Chinese music, like for non western music or maybe East Asian music.

Depends on the population number and temperance of the community. In your example, the Mandarin songs would likely be ignored. However, there’s a chicane somebody checks one out. Whereas if you made a comm for Mandarin music, those same users wouldn’t sub to it Abe would never see it.

Currently listening to Japanese music. I’m one of the ones who would give it a chance. I used to listen to a Chinese album I Shazamed in a Chinese restaurant once. I’ve long since forgotten what it was, but it was very pleasant to listen to, so I may try to find it again.

IMO doing both is probably fine

If they’re not too many songs I’d just post in c/music. There’s also [email protected] where they’ll probably appreciate it more, just check the rules because they require a specific format.

It doesn’t hurt to make a sub-category community, but please also post to c/Music. I certainly hope that on Lemmy we can stop defaulting to the majority language and culture.