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Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

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throwaway874839 wrote: post #4
dotty- wrote: post #2

Seems 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 :)

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Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

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Post by throwaway874839 »

bovermyer wrote: post #27
throwaway874839 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Sorry for that, I found the root cause, unfortunately it'll be a bit before that's fixed, I guess (depends on action on behalf of Spotify).

Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

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Post by throwaway874839 »

parham wrote: post #21

Good job but a heads up: this has been done a gazillion times... loads shutdown after a short run. Worthwhile researching others for reference at least

Any suggestions to research are more than welcome!

Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

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Post by throwaway874839 »

lawgimenez wrote: post #17

Sign up with Spotify not working on my end though.

I'm sorry for that. There's an outstanding bug on the Spotify implementation. It'll be a while before it's back to working again (pending action from Spotify).

Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

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Post by JadeNB »

throwaway874839 wrote: post #10
technotarek wrote: post #3

Selfish, but possibly not alone in the following request… I was a passionate, early user of last.fm. On its face, your service is similar in its goals. How does it differ? How do you think it’s better? A good question to ask myself: why did I stop using last.fm? My quick response is life (becoming a father, the pandemic and a lack of live music) and possibly something to do with migrating from an ipod to Spotify. Als…

See my comment at the top level for a comparison to Last.fm. Let me know if that clarifies things. (I use last.fm too!)

Link to top-level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552617 .

Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

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Post by raffraffraff »

throwaway874839 wrote: post #9

A few people mentioned that this has some Last.fm vibes. While that's true, here's my thoughts on how they differ and what prompted me to create Digs: Last.fm mostly answers the question: "What I've been listening to mostly, this month?" whereas Digs.fm aims to answer the question: "Which album I discovered (i.e. listened for the first time) AND liked last month?". This essentially comes down to the fact that Last.fm…

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.

Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

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Post by Saturdays »

Does anyone remember 'the sixty one', I used to use that all the time to discover music, was really cool - sadly, I left with the rest after the redesign plus overall the music discoverability market was already shifting away from it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesixtyone

Re: Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

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Post by BenGosub »

throwaway874839 wrote: post #30
BenGosub wrote: post #13

I 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...

Yeah, I understand your idea and I thought that it's similar, it's like a pipeline.
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