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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 »

aerozol wrote: post #57
_lucifer wrote: post #56

Have you checked out https://listenbrainz.org ? It features a lot of similar functionality. You can pin your recording jam, recommend tracks to users, view statistics in your listens, create and listen to playlists. We are actively working on adding various type of recommendations for users and also intend to add more music discovery features in future. (- a ListenBrainz Dev)

I believe digs.fm is partly powered by MusicBrainz already, hurray :D

That's true! All release groups from MusicBrainz are fed into the Digs database.

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

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Post by throwaway874839 »

JadoJodo wrote: post #52

As a longtime Last.fm user (I have scrobbles from 2007 on), I’ll have to give this a go. On another note: I was ecstatic to discover recently an iOS app whose main purpose is similar to this: Albums ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/albums-album-focused-player/id... ). It has incredibly tight integration with Last.fm and is perfect for people like me who prefer music in whole-album form.

That looks very interesting and close to the spirit of Digs. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely check this out and perhaps borrow interesting ideas!

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

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Post by throwaway874839 »

altilunium wrote: post #55

I cant find my favourite music. Can we add new entries?

Not yet, but it's something that could be implemented long-term. So, if I understand correctly, are you talking about an album/EP/single release? Can you please provide some examples of what you searched for and didn't found?

Note that you can paste URLs straight from Discogs/Spotify/MusicBrainz/Bandcamp in the search box, and it will take you to the release page in Digs.

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

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Post by lyricism »

I've been using this yesterday and today and love it! Others in this thread have mentioned similar services but I hadn't heard of most of them so I'm excited to try digs for awhile. I'm an avid last.fm user but am pretty much using it for data on my current listening. The social aspect has pretty much died on there, and is off to a great start on digs. Their recommendations are ok, but I like the idea of recommendations from friends rather than algorithms. I may not be your typical user (do not use streaming services, buy music on Bandcamp or buy physical CDs and rip them) but do fall into what I perceive to be your general target audience: I tend to be a full album listener and am always looking for new music. One thing I have used it for so far is adding albums I have already purchased on bandcamp but haven't had a chance to listen to yet to "Want to Listen", as well as albums that are brand new to me that I see on other's feeds.

- One little quirk I noticed is that adding albums from bandcamp doesn't seem to work if the artist is using a custom domain. I tried it with the browser extension and by copy-pasting the URL. Maybe you can change the way a bandcamp site is detected? Does the code only look at the URL to determine if it's bandcamp, or does it load the page and try to parse it?

Example:

https://music.einavjackson.com/album/--2

- Another issue I ran into is the search; it seems like you need to type the album name exactly and with correct spacing and punctuation, not just partially.

Examples:

I tried to look up "tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l". It wasn't case-sensitive, but I ended up having to type all those spaces in the album name.

Hot Chip has a new album called "Freakout/Release". I tried to type "hot chip freakout" and it couldn't find it, but once I added "/release" it came up.

- I'm torn on this one, because I really liked being able to make an account without providing an email address, but social notifications might be more useful if I didn't have to go to the site to see them. Definitely should be opt-in, but I think the option to receive email notifications or notifications through the browser extension would be perfect.

- This is just a personal nice-to-have feature and I know it can be somewhat contentious (if you are looking towards future monetization licensing might be a headache), but I would love more open source code. I found the browser extension on Github but it would be fun to see all of it, and I would definitely contribute to development given the chance.

Anyway, thanks for the cool site, I've had a lot of fun with it so far and can't wait to get a few more friends and start getting really good recommendations.

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

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Post by throwaway874839 »

lyricism wrote: post #65

I've been using this yesterday and today and love it! Others in this thread have mentioned similar services but I hadn't heard of most of them so I'm excited to try digs for awhile. I'm an avid last.fm user but am pretty much using it for data on my current listening. The social aspect has pretty much died on there, and is off to a great start on digs. Their recommendations are ok, but I like the idea of recommendati…

Hey, thanks for the amazingly kind words. That's very encouraging to hear!

> One little quirk I noticed is that adding albums from bandcamp doesn't seem to work if the artist is using a custom domain. I tried it with the browser extension and by copy-pasting the URL. Maybe you can change the way a bandcamp site is detected? Does the code only look at the URL to determine if it's bandcamp, or does it load the page and try to parse it?

I didn't know custom domains were a thing with Bandcamp. I've added a ticket to tackle this somehow (seems like they all CNAME to dom.bandcamp.com, so that could be useful).

> Another issue I ran into is the search; it seems like you need to type the album name exactly and with correct spacing and punctuation, not just partially.

Searching is something that could be improved a lot. Thanks for that specific example, it really helps. This'll be prioritized soon.

> I'm torn on this one, because I really liked being able to make an account without providing an email address, but social notifications might be more useful if I didn't have to go to the site to see them. Definitely should be opt-in, but I think the option to receive email notifications

Yeah there's already a ticket for that. I totally agree with making it opt-in. I myself despise notification noise I didn't explicitly asked for :) This will be definitely done short-term.

> This is just a personal nice-to-have feature and I know it can be somewhat contentious (if you are looking towards future monetization licensing might be a headache), but I would love more open source code.

This is something I occasionally considered a few times myself. To be frank, the code is far from a point that I'd be comfortable releasing at this point. I haven't considered monetization yet (not even remotely), but I would like leave that option open.

Perhaps I could start small, and release some code I've written to wrap the MusicBrainz database and make it available as a Rails model.

This definitely needs more consideration - not something that's likely to be done soon, since there are other things I'd like to focus on (like those you suggested, polishing and bug fixes).

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Thanks a lot for the amazing feedback!

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

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Post by dangravell »

I like this idea a lot - I run https://asti.ga/ which is a streaming service for your own music library.

A lot of our customers value the importance of curation, and it seems curation is an important part of Digs. Maybe the two could be integrated somehow? We already integrate with Last.fm.

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

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Post by disposition2 »

Thanks for sharing. I signed up and will try it out. I've been using a combination of LastFM recommendations, Top lists from rateyourmusic, and just random findings on the internet for my music discovery.

I've been looking since 2015 and have never found anything that comes close to rdio [ RIP :( ] in terms of music recommendation / discovery.

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

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Post by throwaway874839 »

lyricism wrote: post #65

I've been using this yesterday and today and love it! Others in this thread have mentioned similar services but I hadn't heard of most of them so I'm excited to try digs for awhile. I'm an avid last.fm user but am pretty much using it for data on my current listening. The social aspect has pretty much died on there, and is off to a great start on digs. Their recommendations are ok, but I like the idea of recommendati…

> One little quirk I noticed is that adding albums from bandcamp doesn't seem to work if the artist is using a custom domain.

Just a heads up, this is now fixed.

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

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Post by lyricism »

throwaway874839 wrote: post #69
lyricism wrote: post #65

I've been using this yesterday and today and love it! Others in this thread have mentioned similar services but I hadn't heard of most of them so I'm excited to try digs for awhile. I'm an avid last.fm user but am pretty much using it for data on my current listening. The social aspect has pretty much died on there, and is off to a great start on digs. Their recommendations are ok, but I like the idea of recommendati…

> One little quirk I noticed is that adding albums from bandcamp doesn't seem to work if the artist is using a custom domain. Just a heads up, this is now fixed.

Awesome, thank you! Any plans to allow you to put a little note about why you want to listen to an album/where you heard about it/etc? Also maybe if you click "want to listen" from someone else's post, show that somewhere? I'm starting to get a pretty long queue to listen to, it would be nice to see a little info to help me decide what to try next.
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