Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
I&#x27;ve been using this yesterday and today and love it! Others in this thread have mentioned similar services but I hadn&#x27;t heard of most of them so I&#x27;m excited to try digs for awhile. I&#x27;m an avid last.fm user but am pretty much using it for data on my current listening. The social aspect has pretty much died on there, and is off to a great start on digs.  Their recommendations are ok, but I like the idea of recommendations from friends rather than algorithms. I may not be your typical user (do not use streaming services, buy music on Bandcamp or buy physical CDs and rip them) but do fall into what I perceive to be your general target audience: I tend to be a full album listener and am always looking for new music. One thing I have used it for so far is adding albums I have already purchased on bandcamp but haven&#x27;t had a chance to listen to yet to &quot;Want to Listen&quot;, as well as albums that are brand new to me that I see on other&#x27;s feeds.<p>- One little quirk I noticed is that adding albums from bandcamp doesn&#x27;t seem to work if the artist is using a custom domain. I tried it with the browser extension and by copy-pasting the URL. Maybe you can change the way a bandcamp site is detected? Does the code only look at the URL to determine if it&#x27;s bandcamp, or does it load the page and try to parse it?<p>Example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;music.einavjackson.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;--2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;music.einavjackson.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;--2</a><p>- Another issue I ran into is the search; it seems like you need to type the album name exactly and with correct spacing and punctuation, not just partially.<p>Examples:<p>I tried to look up &quot;tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l&quot;. It wasn&#x27;t case-sensitive, but I ended up having to type all those spaces in the album name.<p>Hot Chip has a new album called &quot;Freakout&#x2F;Release&quot;. I tried to type &quot;hot chip freakout&quot; and it couldn&#x27;t find it, but once I added &quot;&#x2F;release&quot; it came up.<p>- I&#x27;m torn on this one, because I really liked being able to make an account without providing an email address, but social notifications might be more useful if I didn&#x27;t have to go to the site to see them. Definitely should be opt-in, but I think the option to receive email notifications or notifications through the browser extension would be perfect.<p>- This is just a personal nice-to-have feature and I know it can be somewhat contentious (if you are looking towards future monetization licensing might be a headache), but I would love more open source code. I found the browser extension on Github but it would be fun to see all of it, and I would definitely contribute to development given the chance.<p>Anyway, thanks for the cool site, I&#x27;ve had a lot of fun with it so far and can&#x27;t wait to get a few more friends and start getting really good recommendations.