There isn’t actually a strong equal to Goodreads or Letterboxd for music lovers, however Record Club is aiming to alter that. Sure, we’ve got Rate Your Musichowever its interface is crowded, and it feels extra geared in direction of longer-form evaluations than cataloging your listening habits and connecting with different followers. File Membership is clear and fashionable, with a streamlined interface that’s fairly just like Letterboxd.
The essential options you’d count on from such a website are all there. You possibly can fee and evaluate data or mark them as listened to. It’s also possible to see what your folks are listening to and see what albums are trending with different customers. There’s a spot in your profile to listing your 5 favourite albums, plus 5 data you’ve in heavy rotation. It’s also possible to create customized lists (ranked or unranked) and share them — helpful for monitoring your prime albums of the yr, or placing collectively genre-specific crash programs. It’s also possible to add data to your queue, so you’ll be able to hold observe of albums you need to take heed to, however haven’t gotten round to but. (I’ll most likely be making intensive use of that.)
You possibly can comply with your favourite artists in addition to entire record labels. That makes it simple to remain on prime of recent artists on labels like 4AD, AD 93, Hearth Discuss, and Warp. File Membership pulls all of its information from the open-source music encyclopedia MusicBrainz. Should you join, give me a followand see what I’m spinning on repeat this week.
