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Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you

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Post by bartproost »

Use Spotify? This tool will automate your music discovery for you. Join here (100% perpetually free with no strings attached): https://brew.fm

Some time ago, I built and showed HN[1] brew.fm, a tool helping artists remix each other’s work. It had been quiet, and I remembered how fun it was to work with the Spotify API, so I repurposed the tool to solve one of my own problems: missing out on new music of my favorite artists. I shared it on Reddit yesterday[2], and this seems to hit a spot for more people: so far 833 people connected their Spotify account.

How it works: The tool simply shows your top 50 artists on Spotify over short, medium and long term, and checks those artists for new music. If you select a playlist, every artist involved in the tracks will be checked for new music, after which new releases are shown sorted by most recent release date.

Here’s a video of me demoing the tool: https://youtu.be/Nh2Ognb4PgU. Enjoy! Very open to feedback.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29952633

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/wsq8rl/let_a_1000_...

Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you
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#2

Post by h4waii »

How 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/

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#3

Post by xwowsersx »

Nice tool, I will definitely give this a try. A couple notes on the first user experience: I clicked on the example and it took quite some time to load (maybe you're getting a lot of traffic currently?) and before it did I saw zero values for the genres and such. A player appeared at the bottom and wasn't sure what to expect, but I tapped the play button and nothing happened (I'm on Chrome on Android).

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Post by bartproost »

xwowsersx wrote: post #3

Nice tool, I will definitely give this a try. A couple notes on the first user experience: I clicked on the example and it took quite some time to load (maybe you're getting a lot of traffic currently?) and before it did I saw zero values for the genres and such. A player appeared at the bottom and wasn't sure what to expect, but I tapped the play button and nothing happened (I'm on Chrome on Android).

Thanks this is great feedback! I'll add a loading state to avoid 0 values, and will look into the load time.

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Post by sdwr »

Cool 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 tracks).

The only way I can see this working is with features that spotify doesn't provide, like social recommendations or shared listening. Still a good showcase of your programming + design skills though!

I made a jukebox prototype for spotify a while back (http://spotifight.herokuapp.com/, click spotify authorization at the bottom), and got around the 30s limit by playing the songs over users' spotify instead.

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Post by r3trohack3r »

Very cool! Will spend some time with this!

I've been disenfranchised with algorithmic recommendations. It's lead me down the RNG path of music discovery.

I built Audile to simulate the old feeling of walking into someone's basement, thumbing through their vinyl collection, and finding all sorts of weird and interesting music: http://audile.app/

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Post by bartproost »

h4waii wrote: post #2

How 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/

Music Butler focuses on either artists you follow on Spotify (just like Spotify itself), or your Spotify Library. Brew.fm shows you new releases per playlist.

Here's a demo of how I use Brew.fm to keep my 2 most used playlists up to date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2Ognb4PgU.

I have no plans to monetize the tool. I'm scratching my own itch here and am very much at the mercy of Spotify. I'm hoping to keep this one a hobby project.

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Post by splatcollision »

bartproost wrote: post #9
splatcollision wrote: post #5

I want a music streaming service where I can only listen to a track once, then it's unavailable forever.

Snapify? Pretty bad deal for the artist making $0.004 per play . Love the idea though

It's guaranteed to be a niche app, an art project even. Thanks
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