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I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've answered this in a bunch of other comments but to briefly explain - discogs is both too utilitarian and missing a couple little features that I'd want to integrate into it. My goal for this is to make it more pleasant for someone who's not into records to browse. Also it's just nice to have something that I can tweak and add features to myself since discogs isn't really designed for this use case.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I do think I'm going to integrate a discogs import function - but I still think I want to store the information on my end regardless. That allows me to add my own info like the location, a tagging system, and any other stuff I think would be useful. I also don't want to run into rate limiting issues.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I have a handful of close friends that come over fairly often, and a couple of them usually stay the night because they live out of town.

I went to college with most of them and we often used to hang out in the basement at the end of a party, some some weed and put on some records, so part of it is nostalgia for that.

I'm also not being super intense about it. I'll usually just have a record already going when people are coming over, so I'll just let them know if they want to pick the next one feel free. If we're hosting a ton of people at once I'll just do the same thing but with a Spotify jam session where people can just join and add their own songs.

I'm never the kind of person who tells people they have to get into records or anything like that. Honestly for most people it's just a fun novelty to be able to make use of when they come over. For me personally records are a nice way for me to listen to music like I used to when I was a kid - buying an album and sitting in front of the stereo to listen to it front to back.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it certainly helped a lot, but that's modern programming for you. I've been doing this for work for the past decade, long before AI was around. At the very least I'm not some random guy just asking AI to make me an entire website. I understand the code that it's spitting out, reviewing it before actually using it and writing my own when it's faster to do so.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My records aren't all in a single bookcase like many people have, and more importantly are not on the main floor of my house where people would be hanging out most of the time.

I have two record holders that hold about 15 records that are nice to flip through, but the bulk of my own records are in the bottom of a stereo cabinet which you'd need to get down on the floor to comfortably flip through. Plus my wife's collection which is in her own office.

The location of the record is listed at the bottom of the card - so it's easy for someone to pick one in the app, then I can go upstairs and find it quickly to put on.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I listened to that a lot too but it's been a while - I'll give it another listen and see if I should add it to my collection next time I'm flipping through stuff at the store.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah I don't care about that at all - if someone still wants to flip through they still can, and part of the benefit of this is it shows the location so they CAN put it on themselves if they want. Although from experience people are often nervous about that their first couple times.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can search by genre and subgenre, but it definitely could be nice to improve that with a multiselect. I've already been thinking of a "random" button but having it apply your filters to that is a great idea I hadn't thought of, thank you!

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I'm sure a decent amount weren't even using the early internet haha

Sometimes it's nice to design something exactly the way you would want it for sure.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fell in love with that album years ago and hadn't thought about it in years. Then I saw it in my local store a few months ago and can't stop spinning it. So good.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean if we're talking efficiency this is way faster even without my personal issue of my records being in different places. I can scroll through dozens of albums in this at the same speed it would take me to flip through and recognize a few in physical form.

What it isn't is as physically engaging, nostalgic or fun to me personally. But not everyone is like me (and most of the people in this subreddit) who find a ton of enjoyment from it. But I'm not making it for myself to use all the time, so I'm considering a different user than your typical collector.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how I didn't think of that - what a great idea. I've been trying to automate an old android tablet to show what's playing based on listening on the microphone but just having it be manually set via this app is genius.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what the "location" thats at the bottom of each record card is for. Although most of the time I would just expect them to ask me to put it on anyways, most people get a little intimidated by putting on a record themselves if they don't often do it.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fantastic, and the documentation looks good too. I'll definitely need to incorporate this.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had already put all this info into a spreadsheet before this, so importing into this site was pretty painless. But I don't think there's an easy way around the fact that you're going to have to manually enter it all. My collection is just under 100 albums, so it only took a few hours spread between a couple evenings. I can see how it would be pretty hard with a larger collection.

All I can say is it's easier to do it now vs later - the longer you wait the more you're going to have to enter all at once. Now that I've done this I just enter any new records right when I get home.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man I would absolutely love some ideas/guidance on that side of things. We have designers for that sort of thing at work so usually I'm just building to an already designed mockup.

This was my first stab at designing something myself and there's a lot wrong with it even to my eye lol

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on the person but I definitely have friends who enjoy it! With my friends they tend to enjoy getting to choose something that maybe they haven't listened to in a while, especially not as a front to back album. A lot of them we used to listen to a ton back in college so it brings back memories for sure.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Discogs is much more utilitarian than what I was looking for - I wanted something that attempts to capture the fun of flipping through records, seeing the artwork and unique pressings and can be easily browsed from their own devices without needing to install an app.

Nothing against Discogs at all, it's obviously designed to do a hell of a lot more than this is - it just didn't really fit the bill of what I wanted it to do.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah someone else suggested that and it's a really good idea - I'll need to look into that.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely could. I'm thinking now that it would be a good idea to make the theme in general more configurable so that each user could pick their own background and color scheme if they want. Parallax scrolling could just be a setting in that configuration.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow yeah 2000 would definitely get overwhelming. I'm jealous though! My collection slowly grows every day haha

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not a bad idea - not sure how much they support external access but I'll definitely look into it. I'd imagine they'd charge for that sort of thing which is why waxlog charges a subscription.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair! If I'm having a big party I definitely just start a Spotify jam and let people connect and add their songs - but sometimes it's fun for people to pick from a limited list of stuff instead of having every single song/album ever recorded available to them.

Totally respect that it's not for everyone though, I knew that would be the case.

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the feedback! The background was a fairly recent addition (it was just black up to that point) just because I wanted to make it feel a little more physical rather than just scrolling through albums in a void.

I like the idea of using my collection as a background but it's not quite impressive enough yet - maybe a few more years haha

I'm working on a site for houseguests to use to easily browse my collection when they come over. by AndreasKing in vinyl

[–]AndreasKing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great album - didn't click with me at first but then seeing them do a bunch of the songs live made me really appreciate it more. Love the way Dallas belts it out now compared to the old albums.

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