[staplers]

While a nice idea, there's just so much more music made than SaaS products and this will eventually need to turn into a curated list ala spotify/apple music to keep users from drowning in static.

I think highlighting a specific type of music and finding your niche audience will be the best way towards a happy userbase.

[cageface]

I've been predicting a return to manual content curation for a while. Algos are not going to be able to keep up with the flood of new content. Record labels are going to be more important than ever.

[ewhicher]

I definitely think humans will always be the best to recommend things to humans who want to remain human.

[Modified3019]

I’m big into Doom/stoner rock/space rock/etc, so I subscribe to Weedian which has a fire hose of download codes for new releases/artists.

Even for this fairly niche group of genres, the free codes I get have filled my bandcamp artist list to the point of it no longer being useable for its intended purpose.

It was already getting unwieldy with just my classicly paid purchases (which I still do a lot of), I have to resort to manually create artist playlists to navigate now.

Even just the Weedian compilation albums are so full of tracks, I just don’t have the time to listen through them to evaluate and brutally curate which songs/artists I love before the next one comes out. The lasted album, “Trip to California” is like 99 songs and over 8 hours. I think people vastly underestimate how much music is out there and is being newly released.

Part of this, is the Doom genre tends to be 5-15 minute songs, which is absolutely what I want, but also makes listening a significant time investment. Fortunately the majority of songs are easy to say “yeah nope” to and cull.

Definitely suffering from success here. On the plus side, I’ve come across a lot of gems that can deserve to sit next to Yob on my playlist, that I wouldn’t have come across otherwise.

I really need figure out solution that lets me stream from a self-hosted archive, rate songs on a 5 star scale, genre tag, and share playlists with family members. The 5 star rating seems to most troublesome to fulfill.

A tool to automatically produce a public facing playlist that links to bandcamp, YouTube and perhaps other places as a last resort would also be amazing. The best way to discover music, is finding and following people like me who make exploring and curation into a hobby. “What music do I like? Here’s my 5 star list”

[ewhicher]

Some very interesting stuff in here, love the playlist idea. Thanks for the insight!

[ewhicher]

Couldn't agree more. We are actually already saving genre against any track submission so when we have a big enough bank of music we will switch on the genre filters :)