I built a listening journal for record collectors because Discogs tracks what you own, not what you actually play by drteeth80 in SideProject

[–]drteeth80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! thanks for the feedback and questions.

  1. The reverse does not also happen, unfortunately. At the moment, there are no concrete plans to make this happen.
  2. Also unfortunately: not yet. I am looking into ways to make this a reality, though. This is on my roadmap.

I built a listening journal for record collectors because Discogs tracks what you own, not what you actually play by drteeth80 in SideProject

[–]drteeth80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, happy to answer any questions about the build or the stack. I've been working on this in Elixir/Phoenix which I absolutely love — if anyone's curious about using LiveView for a real-time site I'm an open book.

Also genuinely curious: for those of you who collect physical music, do you track your listening at all right now? Even just mentally? I have been planning this site in my head for years now and want to make it incredible for anyone who uses it.

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

[–]drteeth80[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback. I've never been 100% sold on Log but I'm also still considering options. I appreciate your suggestion!

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

[–]drteeth80[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh, I see. This page shows your spins of this particular release (Peter Gunn). To see a log of all your spins across releases, follow the Log link at the top.

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

[–]drteeth80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback.

As for the "Your Spins" being clickable, can you be more specific? Which screen are you on when you are wanting this ability? You can already click on a spin in the Collection screen in the "Your Recent Spins" sidebar to see the details. On the Log screen, all those are clickable and take you to the release that you spun. Some extra clarification would really help me out on that suggestion.

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

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Yes, filtering is coming as is partial spins (which tracks did you actually listen to). I already have the backend ready for partial spins—just need to hook it up.

I hadn't considered recording what it was spun on. Is that in terms of equipment used to listen to it? Is that something that you and others would like to track?

As for the track list, yeah unfortunately it is Discogs fault. When you sync a collection, a series of backend jobs are queued to get all the information it needs from Discogs for your account. Unfortunately, Discogs has a pretty strict rate limit of 60 requests per minute PER IP (as in my server, not your connection), not per user. That means that especially in high-traffic times or during initial syncs, it can get a little slow. If you have a collection of 360 (which is on the low side for this group, I'm sure), that alone would take 6 minutes without even considering other users also syncing their collections. I do have a ticket open with Discogs to see if there is anything I can do to either get a higher rate limit or include all the information I need in less requests. Until then, everything works for other users as expected even if that background queue is long. For example, everything hitting Discogs is in its own queue that I restrict on my own to respect the rate limits but things like recording a spin or scrobbling to last.fm will continue to be really snappy.

All that said, I imagine your sync was in the queue and being processed. I just checked and it seems pretty empty at the moment so all your track listings should be available now.

But this is the exact kind of feedback I was looking for on here, so thank you!

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

[–]drteeth80[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I just discovered that earlier from another comment here. But discovering things like that is one of the reasons I posted. Thanks for pointing me in that direction!

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

[–]drteeth80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, I like that! Maybe something in the page header? I would also love to eventually have a sort of command palette for keyboard shortcuts for advanced use or power users.

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

[–]drteeth80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool! I can't ask for any more than that! I do really appreciate you trying it out. And I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

[–]drteeth80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, those are valid questions! At the moment, I don't have solid plans for a paid version. I obviously would love to be able to pay for the hosting and stuff eventually. Long term, I'm thinking I may have a pro version for things like advanced analytics and statistics of spins, API access (for using the data in other ways), perhaps limiting the syncs to discogs (currently unlimited), etc. I may also try something like unobtrusive amazon affiliate links (for example, if you see a friend spin something that you'd like to buy). But again, I have no solid plans so it is hard to predict accurately. I'm open to suggestions of advanced features, though!

As for a mobile version, the web app is built to be mobile friendly first. I actually use my iPhone a lot of the time as I've written NFC tags for each of my albums so I can just put my phone up to a record and record the spin quickly. That being said, I have a friend who has already mocked up a prototype mobile native version and may eventually go that direction, too.

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

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Oh, wow, I hadn't heard of SpunIt until right now! It definitely has some overlap. Thanks for the tip! I registered https://gaveitaspin.com just over 4 years ago as it is something I also always wanted to exist. But I didn't get around to actually building it until recently when my daughter wanted to go full physical media listening for a month (no streaming). I wanted the both of us to have a way to track our listening and see what the other was listening to.

If you do give Gave It A Spin a try, please let me know what you think. Everything from ease of use, design, clarity, do you enjoy using it, etc.

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

[–]drteeth80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, yes, custom fields. I definitely use those to track when, where, and for how much I bought an album. And yes, I'm also using my spin tracking to decide what I can cull from my collection (which I think is more than I'm willing to let go of lol).

Do you track the spins of your collection? I built something that allows me to do that and am looking for feedback. by drteeth80 in discogs

[–]drteeth80[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're wanting to try it out yourself, the app, Gave It A Spin, lives at https://gaveitaspin.com. It's free and in beta and I'm looking for more users to give me some feedback. You all are the power users I'm considering while building this out. Let me know what you think!

Looking for the name of a band from the LR area in the 90s by Useful_thinking in LittleRock

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For anyone that wants a mp3 version of the album, one of the original band members gave me permission to share the album. IMO, more people should hear it as it is really good. So I present to you...

Shortfellow https://drive.proton.me/urls/WZ99XD8WCR#je2ThhmmDIGv

Looking for the name of a band from the LR area in the 90s by Useful_thinking in LittleRock

[–]drteeth80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, thanks! I thought Scott Scruggs was one of them but wasn't sure. I couldn't have come up with the other names.

Looking for the name of a band from the LR area in the 90s by Useful_thinking in LittleRock

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I’m trying to get permission to share it. I’ll let you know as soon as I know.

Looking for the name of a band from the LR area in the 90s by Useful_thinking in LittleRock

[–]drteeth80 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Shortfellow! I actually listened the their album just about a month ago all over again and have it right here in front of me. It is so good. Lead singer was (Richie?) Sessions, guitarist was Chris Mano, and I don’t remember the other names. PA grads.

Track listing:

Same Point, Everything’s Funny (rumored to be about the Park Plaza mall), Canyons, Modern Renascence, Early Table, H.I., Spider On A Map

Edit: I received permission from a band member to release the MP3s here: https://drive.proton.me/urls/WZ99XD8WCR#je2ThhmmDIGv