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

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

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Post by bartproost »

sdwr wrote: post #6

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 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 (slightly) different audience. I can imagine Brew.fm is a little overkill for the average Spotify user, who'd rather hit play and lean back. It'd be cool if there's room for Brew.fm long term by serving the more hardcore music fan, who's more than happy to put extra work in, in exchange to feel on top of new music, and closer to the artists.

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

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Post by honkdaddy »

Wow - first Show HN I've seen in ages which I've been earnestly excited to try! Love the name as well, .fm is such a great TLD.

"Your listening habits have gotten less diverse over time. You've been listening to 95 genres over the last month, which is 9 less than your average of 104.

Your taste is set in stone. It was and still is indie rock"

I got a laugh, because this is absolutely and 100% true. Awesome job!

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Post by bartproost »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #7

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/

I miss those times too! I probably spend an hour a day on the hunt for new music, which used to be a much more social activity for me than it is now.

Is audile basically randomizing Deezer's entire library?

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

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Post by bartproost »

honkdaddy wrote: post #14

Wow - first Show HN I've seen in ages which I've been earnestly excited to try! Love the name as well, .fm is such a great TLD. "Your listening habits have gotten less diverse over time. You've been listening to 95 genres over the last month, which is 9 less than your average of 104. Your taste is set in stone. It was and still is indie rock" I got a laugh, because this is absolutely and 100% true. Awesome job!

Thanks!!

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

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Post by sorenjan »

This 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 to quickly make a playlist with songs with 4+ stars that I hadn't listen to for at least a month, and stuff like that. I think something similar should be possible to do with the Spotify API, with either manual updating on my computer, or automatic via a batch job on some server. Maybe even expand it to similar artists or something, to take advantage of having access to almost all music, not just my own collection. Imagine being able to create a playlist with 100 random trance songs from 1995-2005 with at least 50 000 plays, and having it updated daily, or the 50 most listened to pop songs right now released in 1980-2020.

The similar artist thing would probably be a good addition to this new releases feature to, to help you expand your horizon...

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/itunes/create-delete-and-use...

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