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by throwaway874839 1y ago
A music for ppl who like to listen whole albums and keep track of what they discover (and maybe share it with friends). Something like Goodreads, but for music. Original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551862
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by throwaway874839 3y ago
That's slightly different from my experience, in which I built a niche social network for music explorers, but it also has bookmarking features. I noticed a sustained usage from very few people (perhaps 10-20 users), even after a year.
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by throwaway874839 3y ago
Throughout all these years, I got convinced that human recommendations (those from a close circle of friends I trust) are the best source of music discovery. [Shameless plug] That's why I created https://digs.fm , which is k
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by throwaway874839 3y ago
I always loved listening to music. However, the past few years I started more actively exploring new (old) music around the world and actually listening to whole albums. (I'm always amazed by the vast amount of good music that exists o
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Nice to see last.fm on the front page, it brings back fun memories when we were mocking each other about leaving the player playing all night just to get the stats up. Shameless plug: I'm a firm believer that human recommendations ar
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Totally agreed. Even though YouTube's Related Videos section is at times very decent for music recs., human recommendations are unparalleled. That's actually one of the reasons I've created https://digs.fm (think
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
> I haven't switched out of table view since I started using the site. Also I've been almost exclusively using the mobile site, you do have to scroll in list view to see the notes. Yeah the list view is not suitable for mobiles
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Hey thanks for the report, this should be fixed by now.
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
That's what the "Notes" text field in My Lists (make sure you switch to the table view) is for. Have you seen it? Also, you can add tags to your items, as a means to organize them however you see fit.
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
> One little quirk I noticed is that adding albums from bandcamp doesn't seem to work if the artist is using a custom domain. Just a heads up, this is now fixed.
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Hey, thanks for the amazingly kind words. That's very encouraging to hear! > One little quirk I noticed is that adding albums from bandcamp doesn't seem to work if the artist is using a custom domain. I tried it with the browse
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Not yet, but it's something that could be implemented long-term. So, if I understand correctly, are you talking about an album/EP/single release? Can you please provide some examples of what you searched for and didn't f
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
That looks very interesting and close to the spirit of Digs. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely check this out and perhaps borrow interesting ideas!
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Oh I love Dego & Kaidi :)
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
That's true! All release groups from MusicBrainz are fed into the Digs database.
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
I'm a member on ListenBrainz (I also hang out in #metabrainz). It's an awesome project, thanks for your work. I think that the my other comment comparing Digs to Last.fm ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=325526
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. It's true that the UX definitely lacks in many parts, and in many others it's unclear what one should do after they sign up for the first time. Let me try to clarify a few things. First and foremost, Di
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
> It would be nice to see all listeners to a particular artist or genre/tag. That would make it easier to befriend like-minded listeners. I imagine the success of this website will partly hinge on the edge density of the social netw
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Yep, this will be done definitely in the short to medium-term.
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554640
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
I'm sorry for that. There's an outstanding bug on the Spotify implementation. It'll be a while before it's back to working again (pending action from Spotify).
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Any suggestions to research are more than welcome!
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Sorry for that, I found the root cause, unfortunately it'll be a bit before that's fixed, I guess (depends on action on behalf of Spotify).
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
I myself wanted to mark mixes as listen later, among regular album releases. So that's why Mixcloud URLs are supported in the search box, and it will fetch the actual mix. For example: https://digs.fm/releases/5724
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
A public API will be implemented long-term. Releases are all fed from MusicBrainz database (2.6M releases atm), so I'd say that chances that you'll find what you're looking for are high. And if not, then you can add a release
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
Yep, that's on my radar definitely, probably in the long-term plans. It's a great idea.
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
See my comment at the top level for a comparison to Last.fm. Let me know if that clarifies things. (I use last.fm too!)
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
A few people mentioned that this has some Last.fm vibes. While that's true, here's my thoughts on how they differ and what prompted me to create Digs: Last.fm mostly answers the question: "What I've been listening to mos
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by throwaway874839 4y ago
> I tried signing up with Spotify, but after accepting the authorization on Spotify's side, I was redirected back to digs.fm but not signed in. Ugh, a friend also reported this to me but I couldn't reproduce it. Mind letting me
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Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)(digs.fm)
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