I thought the past tense for dig was dug? :)
Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
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Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#52As a longtime Last.fm user (I have scrobbles from 2007 on), I’ll have to give this a go.
On another note: I was ecstatic to discover recently an iOS app whose main purpose is similar to this: Albums (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/albums-album-focused-player/id...). It has incredibly tight integration with Last.fm and is perfect for people like me who prefer music in whole-album form.
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Back in 2009/2011 last.fm was much better. It had working radio (you could stream from it directly, for a small fee) and their discovery stuff was great. Not sure what happened at last.fm but they just completely screwed up. They dropped streaming, disabled or broke a bunch of other functionality and reverted their API to the stone age.
If I recall, it was around then that they were bought out by... CBS? (Say no more)
Acquisition was 2007, radio shut down in 2014. CBS was hands-off for a long time but you know how this story goes.
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#54How is this different from Rate Your Music or Album Of The Year?
It looks a lot like RYM
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#55I cant find my favourite music. Can we add new entries?
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#56Have you checked out https://listenbrainz.org ? It features a lot of similar functionality.
You can pin your recording jam, recommend tracks to users, view statistics in your listens, create and listen to playlists. We are actively working on adding various type of recommendations for users and also intend to add more music discovery features in future.
(- a ListenBrainz Dev)
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#57Have you checked out https://listenbrainz.org ? It features a lot of similar functionality. You can pin your recording jam, recommend tracks to users, view statistics in your listens, create and listen to playlists. We are actively working on adding various type of recommendations for users and also intend to add more music discovery features in future. (- a ListenBrainz Dev)
I believe digs.fm is partly powered by MusicBrainz already, hurray :D
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#58> Add a Bandcamp album by entering https://2000black.bandcamp.com/album/lord-dego-2
Never ever did I expect to see Dego mentioned on HN. Kaidi and him are dons.
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#59There's a Chinese site called Douban which is like this but for film + books + music + game + ... all on one site
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#60Have you checked out https://listenbrainz.org ? It features a lot of similar functionality. You can pin your recording jam, recommend tracks to users, view statistics in your listens, create and listen to playlists. We are actively working on adding various type of recommendations for users and also intend to add more music discovery features in future. (- a ListenBrainz Dev)
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=32552617), applies pretty much for a comparison with ListenBrainz as well.
While they have some overlap (i.e recommend tracking users, statistics), they do differ in the fact that the one defines "listen" as "listen (new or repeated) of a track/album/artist", while the other defines "listen" as "first-time listen of a release".
Also, the other main focus of Digs is providing a way to organize your "Want to Listen" list (with tags, notes and more on the way), as a means to stay on top of all the music you found interesting at some point. The problem I had, specifically, was that I had "Queues" of things I like to hear in the future (albums, mixes, etc.) in 3 or 4 different sites: YouTube, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Discogs, Spotify. So I wanted to have a single way to organize all these (that's why Digs knows how to parse URLs from these services) and share them with friends.
All in all, I love ListenBrainz and I believe there is room for both sites in this world, since they tackle slightly different needs.