Show HN: What's New? Music - an enterprise coder's first ever website

Full details of how someone who knew almost nothing about web development managed to piece this thing together: <a href="http://lifebeyondfife.com/98-what%27s-new-music.html" rel="nofollow">http://lifebeyondfife.com/98-what%27s-new-music.html</a><p>This side project though nothing revolutionary has been a bit of an obsession and labour of love for most of this year. I would just like to thank the HN community because, whether or not I read any of your blog posts, links or comments, coming here and getting motivation and mental stimulation has really dragged me up and kept me going. Cheers.

Neat! This is one my oft-mentioned longtime broken use cases when talking to friends about where technology is failing me. With all the "genius" services that recommend new music to me I still find it infuriating that there's software that knows how often I listen to the last Neko Case record, but <i>won't dependably tell me when a new one comes out!</i><p>Also, don't be discouraged by comments w/ links to other services. That's not an indication this is a solved problem, it's validation that it's a problem worth solving... I think that's much more valuable than taking the only bite at an apple that may or may not be worth eating.

I currently use <a href="http://www.albumreminder.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.albumreminder.com/</a> for this. It imports your artists from last.fm or itunes, and provides you with an RSS feed and/or email notifications of new artist releases.

For those interested in a non-signup-for-something solution, I've been tracking album releases for a long time with <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/new-releases/date" rel="nofollow">http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/new-rel...</a> (I believe there is an RSS feed, but I don't use it).<p>There is also the New Releases tab on Last.fm if you already use that.

Tried but it didn't seem to work. I'm using Chrome, and I typed in Atmosphere. It took me to another page asking me to enter the artist name again. After 3 tries it finally showed an empty box for "Atmosphere", with a very slow resizing animation. Nothing ever loaded inside the box for "Atmosphere" (by the size of the box I'm assuming it would show an album cover?), and no data ever displayed.

Had a hard time finding artists with "common word" names, such as "copyright" for instance. And when it did find the accurate artist, the songs where much older than what I would have expected. Though the idea is great, because I'm tired of checking each artist manually or on SoundCloud to know what's coming. Again, great idea.

So anyone can add bands to anyone else's list? And remove them? What's to stop me adding my band to everyone's list?<p>Also it can only find 3 albums for Slayer, none of which were released this millennium...<p>Other than that this is a great idea and nice looking website.