record.club - any DiSsers using this?

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Seems like the start of something like letterboxd for music - I like the queue idea.

Reminds me a little of what we tried to build into the back-end of DiS but never really had the resources to finish it - rating artists, albums, and adding things to your collection

I’m here if anyone wants to add me Drowned in Sound Sean's profile – Record Club

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Is it like a new Rate Your Music?

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Similar, yeah.

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I think I’d rather to continue to forget the old Rate Your Music exists

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This is how they describe it:

Record Club is a social network for music fans. That’s a bit vague, we know, but it’s on purpose. We encourage you to use and interact with this platform in any way you see fit.

Use it as an organizing tool for keeping track of new and old albums, or for interacting with other people on the platform.

Showcase your current rotation of albums that’s on constant repeat, or use your queue to remind yourself what to listen to next.

Rate, review and tag releases, and add them to lists that you either share with the world or only yourself – and so much more…

The obvious comparison is Goodreads and Letterboxd (or for that matter, Rate Your Music). So if you’ve already used those platforms you will feel right at home here.

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Still find it very useful for deciding where in someone’s discography to start

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I was joking, RYM is amazing. I just wish I spent more time on it. It doesn’t need replacing.

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I spend as much time on RYM as I do on DiS. Ugly as hell site but I love it.

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I joined the waitlist. I’m a sucker for a good time-waster.

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I’m not following many accounts yet but record club does this. Which is nice.

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Congrats to David Bowie for releasing a new EP

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got any lists?

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or is that a bit personal

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I’ve been on there for ages. The website is run by a Swedish guy who is a friend of a friend.

I have 2 invites if needed.

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Do you want an invite?

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I’d love one! Thank you.

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Oh I got lists, but it’s mostly AOTY, AOTW, anticipated, yearly discoveries, and a few genre ones. 127 lists total but maybe less than half public (lot of them just out of date so I hid them).

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/sidewinder03/

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I’ve DM’d you the invite.

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Curious to check this out. Have been trying to find a “Letterboxd for music” for years. Used Listend but got burned when they just decided to give up on the operation one day with no warning. Moved to Musicboard since then which is doing the job for now but falls well short of the standards set by Letterboxd.

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Never heard of Musicboard.

So I’ve spent too much time on record.club already today just playing around and adding things, instead of doing work. Have added over 200 releases to my collection already (many rated), and created one list for upcoming releases. Followed a dozen artists too. Some observations so far, mostly compared to RYM:

Pros

  • I like the ability to take certain actions on a release without navigating to the page.
  • Interface is pretty clean
  • No formats to mess with…just the album and who cares if you own it on CD, vinyl, mp3, or minidisc
  • You can like and comment on reviews
  • Steaming links when available, though no embedded players like RYM

Cons

  • Have to click Discography from the artist’s page to see everything, rather than it just being on the page
  • Can’t see a way to upload missing artwork
  • Can’t see a way to add missing releases (might be a good thing for now, avoiding duplicates)
  • In Rotation feature is limited to 5, but I suppose that’s decent. Just didn’t realize when I kept adding some that it was bumping the ones I had previously added
  • Recommendations seem to only be given between users, there’s no automated recommendations engine based on your collection and ratings
  • No “similar to” albums on release pages
  • No genres displayed on release pages
  • Discovery seems very limited, outside of looking at reviews. But again without genres or “similar to” stuff, what’s prompting me to read a review or something I’m not familiar with?

That’s it, better get some actual work done now.

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