There isn’t in reality a cast an identical to Goodreads or Letterboxd for track fans, however Document Membership is aiming to modify that. Sure, we have now Charge Your Song, however its interface is crowded, and it feels extra geared against longer-form evaluations than cataloging your listening conduct and connecting with different enthusiasts. Document Membership is blank and fashionable, with a streamlined interface that’s reasonably very similar to Letterboxd.
The fundamental options you’d be expecting from this type of web site are all there. You’ll fee and evaluate information or mark them as listened to. You’ll additionally see what your folks are paying attention to and notice what albums are trending with different customers. There’s a place to your profile to listing your 5 favourite albums, plus 5 information you have got in heavy rotation. You’ll additionally create customized lists (ranked or unranked) and proportion them — to hand for monitoring your most sensible albums of the yr, or placing in combination genre-specific crash lessons. You’ll additionally upload information for your queue, so you’ll be able to stay observe of albums you need to hear, however haven’t gotten round to but. (I’ll most probably be making intensive use of that.)
You’ll practice your favourite artists in addition to complete document labels. That makes it simple to stick on most sensible of recent artists on labels like 4AD, AD 93, Fireplace Communicate, and Warp. Document Membership pulls all of its information from the open-source track encyclopedia MusicBrainz. If you happen to join, give me a practice, and notice what I’m spinning on repeat this week.
