[conflagration]

Nice service to get an initial overview. I am a regular festival-goer, but I prefer to go to more "underground"-ish festival (for the lack of a better word). Those festivals don't necessarily want to be easily discoverable (i.e. the Fusion festival in Germany goes great lengths to suppress the hype around it).

For me the discoverability problem is another one: In recent years, I am listening to so many new bands and musicians, that I am totally loosing track of their names. It occurred to me more than one time, that someone was talking about a band, whose name I thought I never heard before, to later find out that they did a song or album, that I actually listened a lot. This also goes for festivals: I walk around at a festival and hear a familiar song playing somewhere and realize, that there is a band playing that I enjoy a lot, but whose name I didn't remember at all. I know other people have this problem too and I assume this is a by-product of the UX of streaming music (when you have to put a CD or vinyl on every time you want to listen to a band, ofc you learn the names much faster).

So what I actually need is a service, where I can paste a link to a festival website, which the service scrapes and does entity recognition on. Then the resulting list of bands should be matched against my Spotify history and tell me the matches (either because I actually listened to the bands, or by some means of collaborative filtering). I am thinking about doing this in script form for this years Fusion festival, but would also like to know, if more people are interested in a service like this.

[gripfx]

Songkick does exactly this. Links with various music and social media accounts, then matches concerts and festivals in areas that you specify. Whenever a concert is announced by an artist I listen to in a city I have selected, I get an email with details on where and when tickets are on sale.

[conflagration]

Thanks for mentioning Songkick, I just registered there and looks like a good service overall. Reminds me of some of the last.fm functionality I was using in the past for that matter. What its still missing, is support for the functionality I described for festivals. Yes, they match festivals for you, but they don't tell you, which bands you should see there. Also they would have to update their database pretty often to i.e. work for Fusion festival, which announces the line-up only a few days prior to the festival, or to account for additions to/changes in festival line-ups.

[gripfx]

IIRC bands that you track are in bold on an events page. No predictions on who you should see though, that's probably out of their wheelhouse. I do think they have some kind of API acces to ticketing sites though because more than once the emails I get had working links to artist presale that I could use. Another app that I use is Dice. Not sure what the avaibility is outside of the UK but I have got (relevant) suggested events based on other tickets I bought from them.

[stevenicr]

Similar issues here a while back, now when I find a show like dj sets from Miami or Vegas on youtube I immediately look for comments that show the tracklist, or majority of it. Those who post those in comments are so helpful. I've copy pasted several.

Now I need a script to suck in all the tracks I've checked with shazaam, and tracklists I've copy pasted into notepad, and bookmarked via chrome and liked on di.fm combine them, then spit out a spreadsheet showing cost to buy single mp3s and associated albums. I would buy much more music and have is accessible when mobile more often.

[dylan604]

> (when you have to put a CD or vinyl on every time you want to listen to a band, ofc you learn the names much faster).

"Back in the day", I was getting new music every Tues/Thursday. It always amazed me how quickly I could catalog artist/trackname/what it sounded like in my brain. Later, if I heard another DJ play that track, I could recall the artist/track/cover art/record label info very quickly. It's kind of like any other skill really, when you do it all day every day, it's easy for you. Stop doing it for awhile, and the skill diminishes. I think it's also another example of that physical/tactile interaction with learning. Reading the info on the record, associating the visual of the cover, associating the sound of the track all while physically touching the vinyl/CD really embeds the data in the brain.