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Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by gripfx »

conflagration wrote: post #18
gripfx wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Songkick does exactly this. Links with various music and social media accounts, then matches concerts and festivals in areas that you specify. Whenever a concert is announced by an artist I listen to in a city I have selected, I get an email with details on where and when tickets are on sale.

Thanks for mentioning Songkick, I just registered there and looks like a good service overall. Reminds me of some of the last.fm functionality I was using in the past for that matter. What its still missing, is support for the functionality I described for festivals. Yes, they match festivals for you, but they don't tell you, which bands you should see there. Also they would have to update their database pretty often…

IIRC bands that you track are in bold on an events page. No predictions on who you should see though, that's probably out of their wheelhouse. I do think they have some kind of API acces to ticketing sites though because more than once the emails I get had working links to artist presale that I could use. Another app that I use is Dice. Not sure what the avaibility is outside of the UK but I have got (relevant) suggested events based on other tickets I bought from them.

Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by majortennis »

I know we can use OCR but just thinking about how festival lineups are often an image with a crazy font for different bands and yeah the exclusivity or underground elements for this hurts my head. I shall investigate the alt text for festival lineup images

Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by marssaxman »

Seems odd to include Burning Man - if you go there expecting it to be a music festival like the rest of these, you're likely to have a bad time. I mean, yes, it does so happen that a lot of people bring mini-festivals to share as art projects, but that's not what the event itself is about.

Re: Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals

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Post by dylan604 »

conflagration wrote: post #5

Nice service to get an initial overview. I am a regular festival-goer, but I prefer to go to more "underground"-ish festival (for the lack of a better word). Those festivals don't necessarily want to be easily discoverable (i.e. the Fusion festival in Germany goes great lengths to suppress the hype around it). For me the discoverability problem is another one: In recent years, I am listening to so many new bands and…

> (when you have to put a CD or vinyl on every time you want to listen to a band, ofc you learn the names much faster).

"Back in the day", I was getting new music every Tues/Thursday. It always amazed me how quickly I could catalog artist/trackname/what it sounded like in my brain. Later, if I heard another DJ play that track, I could recall the artist/track/cover art/record label info very quickly. It's kind of like any other skill really, when you do it all day every day, it's easy for you. Stop doing it for awhile, and the skill diminishes. I think it's also another example of that physical/tactile interaction with learning. Reading the info on the record, associating the visual of the cover, associating the sound of the track all while physically touching the vinyl/CD really embeds the data in the brain.

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