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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)
#22I like the concept. I'm missing the social side of music since moving away, physically and musically, from my school and university friends. It would be great to find music friends across the internet.
Some thoughts:
- Since most music can be accessed instantly as part of a subscription, the "want to listen" list may lack purpose for most users. If I want to listen to something, I'll listen to it at that time or very soon afterwards. So it'll be in my "listened" list already, and maybe my "digged" list too. Goodreads has a "want to read", but that makes sense for many people, since most people still pay for individual books and often buy physical copies. Books also take a lot longer to consume. Some sit on my shelf for months, partly finished. So there is that backlog of books to get through that doesn't exist to a significant degree for albums. Maybe it doesn't matter though - the list may still serve a purpose for those who want to use it.
- It would be nice to see all listeners to a particular artist or genre/tag. That would make it easier to befriend like-minded listeners. I imagine the success of this website will partly hinge on the edge density of the social network, so the more avenues you provide users to find friends, the better.
Good luck!
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#23Seems cool. This project gives me some last.fm vibes. Do people still use last.fm? I used to be a big user of Last.fm back in the day, but just slowly lost my interest to make sure my Last.fm "scrobbler" was always running. Havent thought about that site in years. I tried signing up with Spotify, but after accepting the authorization on Spotify's side, I was redirected back to digs.fm but not signed in. Now when I cl…
> I tried signing up with Spotify, but after accepting the authorization on Spotify's side, I was redirected back to digs.fm but not signed in. Ugh, a friend also reported this to me but I couldn't reproduce it. Mind letting me know what browser you're using? If you don't want to disclose, feel free to email me at [redacted]. Thanks for reporting this. P.S. I'll post a comment regarding comparing to Last.fm soon :)
Might it be something to do with how your account is registered with Spotify? Mine was signed up for with Facebook (ugh) and I'm seeing that bug.
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#24If you were able to have as many releases as rateyourmusic.com and provide a public API then I'd be very interested. But due to the userbases of sites like rym and discogs who have contributed a lot to the information and number of releases on those sites, it's hard to see how new contenders in this particular space can compete
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#25Seems cool. This project gives me some last.fm vibes. Do people still use last.fm? I used to be a big user of Last.fm back in the day, but just slowly lost my interest to make sure my Last.fm "scrobbler" was always running. Havent thought about that site in years. I tried signing up with Spotify, but after accepting the authorization on Spotify's side, I was redirected back to digs.fm but not signed in. Now when I cl…
> Do people still use last.fm?
Absolutely! https://www.last.fm/dashboard shows shows about 500 scrobbles (track listens) per second, in the "All Time Scrobbles" section of the page.
(Disclaimer: I work at last.fm.)
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#26Seems cool. This project gives me some last.fm vibes. Do people still use last.fm? I used to be a big user of Last.fm back in the day, but just slowly lost my interest to make sure my Last.fm "scrobbler" was always running. Havent thought about that site in years. I tried signing up with Spotify, but after accepting the authorization on Spotify's side, I was redirected back to digs.fm but not signed in. Now when I cl…
> Do people still use last.fm? Absolutely! https://www.last.fm/dashboard shows shows about 500 scrobbles (track listens) per second, in the "All Time Scrobbles" section of the page. (Disclaimer: I work at last.fm.)
Cool dashboard page. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#27Seems cool. This project gives me some last.fm vibes. Do people still use last.fm? I used to be a big user of Last.fm back in the day, but just slowly lost my interest to make sure my Last.fm "scrobbler" was always running. Havent thought about that site in years. I tried signing up with Spotify, but after accepting the authorization on Spotify's side, I was redirected back to digs.fm but not signed in. Now when I cl…
> I tried signing up with Spotify, but after accepting the authorization on Spotify's side, I was redirected back to digs.fm but not signed in. Ugh, a friend also reported this to me but I couldn't reproduce it. Mind letting me know what browser you're using? If you don't want to disclose, feel free to email me at [redacted]. Thanks for reporting this. P.S. I'll post a comment regarding comparing to Last.fm soon :)
I have the same issue. Firefox, Windows 10; also Firefox, macOS.
I don't see myself in the New Users list on the main page. Perhaps it's completing the authorization on Spotify's end, but not creating the user account on the Digs end?
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#28Seems cool. This project gives me some last.fm vibes. Do people still use last.fm? I used to be a big user of Last.fm back in the day, but just slowly lost my interest to make sure my Last.fm "scrobbler" was always running. Havent thought about that site in years. I tried signing up with Spotify, but after accepting the authorization on Spotify's side, I was redirected back to digs.fm but not signed in. Now when I cl…
> Do people still use last.fm? Absolutely! https://www.last.fm/dashboard shows shows about 500 scrobbles (track listens) per second, in the "All Time Scrobbles" section of the page. (Disclaimer: I work at last.fm.)
Question from a 10+year last.fm user: how does last.fm stay afloat? I have to assume that the vast majority of users are like me and mostly in it just to have a scrobbling server endpoint. It's been years since last.fm had the radio/streaming components for advertising revenue, and I have no idea what percentage of your userbase pays for the Pro subscription.
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#29If you were able to have as many releases as rateyourmusic.com and provide a public API then I'd be very interested. But due to the userbases of sites like rym and discogs who have contributed a lot to the information and number of releases on those sites, it's hard to see how new contenders in this particular space can compete
A public API will be implemented long-term. Releases are all fed from MusicBrainz database (2.6M releases atm), so I'd say that chances that you'll find what you're looking for are high.
And if not, then you can add a release by providing a Spotify/Discogs/Bandcamp/Mixcloud URL in the search box, and it will fetch the proper metadata.
Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
#30I am a programmer and an active DJ myself and as such a type of person I do a lot of music organizations into different playlists. For example, each month on Soundcloud I keep one playlist of "Mixes to listen" (usually private) and one playlist of "Favorite mixes for month X". I've been doing this for a few years already. You can find these at https://soundcloud.com/ulterior I can see how this kind of a service can b…
I myself wanted to mark mixes as listen later, among regular album releases. So that's why Mixcloud URLs are supported in the search box, and it will fetch the actual mix.
For example: https://digs.fm/releases/57246010-Monkey-Shoulder-DJ-JAZZY-J...