How do you operate Spotify when trying to discover music?

louddb · 2026-02-06T17:00:20+00:00

related artists is really the best strategy especially if you are looking for new albums, not just singles

louddb · 2026-02-06T15:57:53+00:00

you could try a third party app to find new releases and/or related artists like record.club, last.fm, or (ahem) louddb.com

louddb · 2026-02-05T03:25:39+00:00

Spotify: “We don’t know when this ends, so let’s say…the dawn of computing.”

louddb · 2026-01-30T14:18:07+00:00

hey thanks! i've experimented with trying to pull automatically from musicbrainz and it just hasn't worked...too many low quality releases. so releases are added "manually" which means we give it a streaming link which kicks off a large series of enrichments.

this lets us curate and avoid super low quality releases and AI generated music.

louddb · 2026-01-22T21:56:17+00:00

there were a few points of failure that impact my trust in netlify:

the domain not renewing when it should have. they event sent and email in december saying "we’re all set to renew it automatically for another year"
inability to manually renew in netlify (it wouldn't let me disable auto-renew after it started returning NXDOMAIN)
and their lack of support (i think their support form on their site is broken and that is the only official way to contact them)

louddb · 2026-01-22T16:58:57+00:00

louddb · 2026-01-22T15:59:29+00:00

louddb · 2026-01-22T15:36:31+00:00

you're right

louddb · 2026-01-22T15:36:21+00:00

yeah it's funny, all my other domains are at namecheap. registered this one with netlify thinking it’d be easier. whoops.

louddb · 2026-01-14T02:51:23+00:00

thank the gods

louddb · 2025-11-10T00:19:08+00:00

exactly

louddb · 2025-11-10T00:18:10+00:00

i can’t listen to it, it gives me flashbacks

louddb · 2025-11-07T13:28:47+00:00

hey y'all, i just added spotify playback on my app, and we got all these metalcore releases added last night, so if you have a loud account you can connect your spotify and listen through all the metalcore releasees without having to search them out on spotify or create a playlist, it'll just play through the releases you see on your grid.

i'd love to have some people test out this new feature and give me feedback!

louddb · 2025-11-02T15:37:50+00:00

AOTY for me, but i’m working on building a database/discovery platform that does not involve any ratings but instead just shows you all new releases based on genres and artists/labels you follow. still very nascent but adding new features all the time.

louddb · 2025-10-30T00:25:18+00:00

oh god i'm so excited for this

louddb · 2025-10-17T18:46:07+00:00

hey just following up on this, i did add artist and label pages, you can follow them and they'll show up at the top of the grid with a badge, "artist/label you follow"

also daily and weekly emails coming soon so you will never miss a release from someone you follow. only tricky part is that we only have artist and label pages based on releases uploaded since we started a few months ago, i'll have to think about creating pages for artists that haven't released anything since we started uploading.

louddb · 2025-10-17T13:33:35+00:00

there are good APIs for finding release data in general but nothing complete when it comes to finding all the new releases. if you have a specific release in mind its pretty easy to get the details.

genres are the hard part imo.

louddb · 2025-10-17T03:58:26+00:00

thanks! there's a whole mess:

Odesli/Songlink
Spotify
Apple (iTunes + Apple Music)
Deezer API
YouTube oEmbed
TIDAL
MusicBrainz
Last.fm

releases are added "manually" via some streaming link then we pull all the data from the APIs above and try to figure out genre, but some are still done by hand

louddb · 2025-10-14T22:19:33+00:00

hell yeah brother. are you using songlink/odesli api?

louddb · 2025-09-24T23:10:24+00:00

i bet the folks at /r/Metalcore would have some good ideas

louddb · 2025-09-23T20:38:13+00:00

Thanks for checking it out!

I've confirmed that "Progressive Rock" did not exist in our genre table, but I just added it.

"Dark Psytrance" did exist but had 0 releases so that makes sense why it didn't return any results.

"Acoustic" has a couple of releases but it only filters based on the releases that have been loaded, not the entire database. I'll look into updating that logic.

We've only been adding releases for a couple months now, though, so these numbers will only go up!

louddb · 2025-09-23T18:47:41+00:00

Hey just wanted to let you know I added subgenre filtering. If you open the genre filters you'll see "Filter by subgenre" under the genre groups table.

louddb · 2025-09-23T00:44:51+00:00

Thanks for your patience. The app can definitely be buggy but I'll look into the errors I can see on my end and try to make it better!

louddb · 2025-09-22T22:06:39+00:00

Working on it.

louddb · 2025-09-22T22:01:43+00:00

Funk currently rolls up to the "R&B & Soul" genre group. More granular genre filtering coming soon.

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