Tried it. Didn't find anything interesting there except for a graph telling me what genres I am listening and many songs that are in my playlist.
Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you
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#22This looks really nice, it's a good showcase of the value of having an API that lets others add value to your service. If you're looking at expanding the feature set there's something I've been thinking of for a while, but haven't gotten around to it yet, and this looks miles better than anything I would cobble together. I really miss Apple's smart playlists[0] from when I used iTunes for my iPod. It was really easy…
I stumbled across this [0] yesterday, which is basically exactly what you’re describing.
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#23Tried it. Didn't find anything interesting there except for a graph telling me what genres I am listening and many songs that are in my playlist.
Here's a video of me demoing how to use Brew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2Ognb4PgU
It sounds like you're not interested in stats on your listening behavior. There's a section called Missed New Music that points out releases you might have missed, and there a button saying 'See stats for playlist' which lets you check missed music per playlist. If that isn't interesting either, Brew probably isn't for you
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#24This is neat! I clicked the hamburger menu before logging in and was able to select “settings”, which triggers a client-side error. You may want to hide that menu option unless authenticated.
Great find! Will do, thank you!
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#25How does this compare to Music Butler? It recently went to a paid model. I did find the service very useful for the 3ish years I used it, but I didn't jump to premium, and kinda stopped using it. Curiously, what makes this service different and how will you ensure "100% perpetually free with no strings attached"? https://www.musicbutler.io/
MusicButler dev here. Even though you didn't sign up for the paid plan, I appreciate the mention and the compliments!
And to /u/bartproost - good luck with your new adventure! Your note on monetization reminds of myself 4 years ago when I'd just started with MusicButler. Luckily I didn't make any promises about it being free forever because, well, hobby projects have associated costs too.
Re: Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you
#26How does this compare to Music Butler? It recently went to a paid model. I did find the service very useful for the 3ish years I used it, but I didn't jump to premium, and kinda stopped using it. Curiously, what makes this service different and how will you ensure "100% perpetually free with no strings attached"? https://www.musicbutler.io/
MusicButler dev here. Even though you didn't sign up for the paid plan, I appreciate the mention and the compliments! And to /u/bartproost - good luck with your new adventure! Your note on monetization reminds of myself 4 years ago when I'd just started with MusicButler. Luckily I didn't make any promises about it being free forever because, well, hobby projects have associated costs too.
I was curious about the service (I'm not against paying for stuff and MusicButler supports Apple Music) but nowhere on the website does it tell me how much it costs.
Re: Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you
#27This looks really nice, it's a good showcase of the value of having an API that lets others add value to your service. If you're looking at expanding the feature set there's something I've been thinking of for a while, but haven't gotten around to it yet, and this looks miles better than anything I would cobble together. I really miss Apple's smart playlists[0] from when I used iTunes for my iPod. It was really easy…
I stumbled across this [0] yesterday, which is basically exactly what you’re describing. [0] http://playlistmachinery.com/index.html
That looks really cool, thanks for the tip!
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#28Pretty cool, but after I visited the settings page and changed nothing, I hit Save… and now the profile page says I have listened to 0 genres and keeps crashing the tab on iPhone/safari :(
Not sure if the settings page is related, but that was when it started.
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#29The tiled layout looks nice. For the genre report, I remember spotify api only provides artist genres instead of individual tracks.
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#30Cool design, good UI, stats look good. The album art is big and cluttered for my taste, I'd prefer a list view. Don't want to get too negative, but I don't think this can seriously compete with spotify's built-in song discovery. They have tons of advantages in that respect, some moats (can only play 30s with API, integrated playlists), and some by virtue of scale (can compare with other people's listens to find new t…
Thanks! Your jukebox prototype looks cool as well. I like the idea of playing songs over users's Spotify instead, will explore that idea, thanks! I think you're right re: Spotify's built-in song discovery. Brew.fm's concept as is now would be easy to copy for Spotify, they'd be crazy not to if enough people seem to find value, and I'd love it if they do. A way to properly differentiate would probably be by serving a…
It has some rough edges, but I'm still pretty proud of it. The first time it just worked, and people were all adding songs to the playlist at once was magical.
I could totally see Brew.fm working for hardcore discovery. People who are in the music industry or are really serious about finding new stuff. Choose who to follow, see who's released what every day. The really amazing thing would be being able to see what's new + popular, hot releases by unknown artists. Unfortunately I don't think that info is available through their API.
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