Use Spotify? This tool will automate your music discovery for you. Join here (100% perpetually free with no strings attached): <a href="https://brew.fm" rel="nofollow">https://brew.fm</a><p>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.<p>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.<p>Here’s a video of me demoing the tool: <a href="https://youtu.be/Nh2Ognb4PgU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Nh2Ognb4PgU</a>. Enjoy! Very open to feedback.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29952633" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29952633</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/wsq8rl/let_a_1000_bots_discover_new_music_on_spotify_for/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/wsq8rl/let_a_1000_...</a>
This looks really nice, it's a good showcase of the value of having an API that lets others add value to your service.<p>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.<p>The similar artist thing would probably be a good addition to this new releases feature to, to help you expand your horizon...<p>[0] <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/itunes/create-delete-and-use-smart-playlists-itns3001/windows" rel="nofollow">https://support.apple.com/guide/itunes/create-delete-and-use...</a>
If you say music discovery then I expect to discover things I don't know. Currently this is only offering new releases by artists in playlists.<p>I understand that via the API you can't get access to their whole graph and recommendation engine.<p>Currently when I like something I go to "artist radio" or "song radio" to find new things.<p>For a better discovery tool you need to use data from outside of Spotify
How does this compare to Music Butler? It recently went to a paid model.<p>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.<p>Curiously, what makes this service different and how will you ensure "100% perpetually free with no strings attached"?<p><a href="https://www.musicbutler.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.musicbutler.io/</a>
Pretty cool, but after I visited the settings page and changed nothing, I hit Save… and now the profile page says I have listened to 0 genres and keeps crashing the tab on iPhone/safari :(<p>Not sure if the settings page is related, but that was when it started.
One thing I can't stand is Spotify not allowing me to turn off / disable singles in the new music feed. I only want to hear an artist's new album.
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).
I like to use Spotify Release List [1] which is also a good replacement for the Spotify Release Radar. It just watches for artists you follow and doesn't include those that buy their way into the Release Radar (I'm looking at you, Ed).<p>[1] <a href="https://spotifyreleaselist.netlify.app" rel="nofollow">https://spotifyreleaselist.netlify.app</a>
As with all music recommendation engines, I want the ability to remove things from the mix. I have zero interest in music similar to Kidz Bop, it's just something I happen to play for my kids.
The novelty of these api apps are great... things like "You can’t get enough of Matteo Faustini lately" and "Your love for Negramaro has faded." makes me laugh... but besides the main section of the dashboard everything else just looks like a long list of albums...there's no long term engagement. I'm not sure why I would return here. Either way, of all of the spotify related web apps I've seen, this one does it the best.
Congratulations on the launch!<p>I have a suggestion for your next iteration, 'Lyric based music playlist' i.e. Songs for niche categories like Philosophy; There are people looking for it[1] as current music scene seems to be flooded with Romance/break up songs.<p>So a tool which classifies using the lyrics and are able to find obscure songs irrespective of the artists could be able to address that need-gap.<p>[1] <a href="https://needgap.com/problems/31-lyric-based-music-playlists-music-genre" rel="nofollow">https://needgap.com/problems/31-lyric-based-music-playlists-...</a> (Disclosure: This is problem validation forum).
This is neat! I clicked the hamburger menu before logging in and was able to select “settings”, which triggers a client-side error. You may want to hide that menu option unless authenticated.
Very cool! Will spend some time with this!<p>I've been disenfranchised with algorithmic recommendations. It's lead me down the RNG path of music discovery.<p>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: <a href="http://audile.app/" rel="nofollow">http://audile.app/</a>
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.<p>"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.<p>Your taste is set in stone. It was and still is indie rock"<p>I got a laugh, because this is absolutely and 100% true. Awesome job!
Worth mentioning is The Echo Nests old genremap; which is also very interesting to roam around in: <a href="https://everynoise.com/" rel="nofollow">https://everynoise.com/</a>
I have to be honest, Spotify is not a source of music for me.<p>If it were for Soundcloud, but ultimately I'd like to discover new tracks and songs on my own.
Where's the fun in machine doing it for you?
Any similar software for Apple Music? Would love to try something like this though I don't use Spotify.<p>(Whoever downvoted please at least explain why you are downvoting a legitimate comment asking for a similar tool)
Cool design, good UI, stats look good. The album art is big and cluttered for my taste, I'd prefer a list view.<p>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).<p>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!<p>I made a jukebox prototype for spotify a while back (<a href="http://spotifight.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://spotifight.herokuapp.com/</a>, click spotify authorization at the bottom), and got around the 30s limit by playing the songs over users' spotify instead.