gHacks technology news » upcoming albums http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Track Album Releases Automatically http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/12/track-album-releases-automatically/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/12/track-album-releases-automatically/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:51:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8228 The Internet can provide music fans with lots of information about their favorite artists including tour dates or upcoming albums. The website Muspy can help you with the latter by tracking the album releases of selected artists and sending out information whenever a new album release is announced.

The service requires registration which is a quick and painless process. After signing up and in artists can be added that the user wants to track. The database of artists and releases is directly taken from MusicBrainz which ensures that most artists will be found and can be tracked.

The releases of all entered artists can be tracked afterwards. Notifications can be received by email or RSS news feed if that is preferred. Additionally only certain release types (albums, singles, compilations, live etc) can be monitored.

Another interesting feature is that artists can be imported from Last.fm usernames. It does not necessarily have to be the user’s account because all that is needed for import is the username and the maximum amount of artists that should be imported.

No advertisement is currently send with the emails or news feeds which one would almost except from such a service. Could be that the developers have plans to add links to shops at a later stage but even that should not be a huge drawback for the service.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/12/track-album-releases-automatically/feed/ 6 Get new and upcoming releases of your favorite bands http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/get-new-and-upcoming-releases-of-your-favorite-bands/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/get-new-and-upcoming-releases-of-your-favorite-bands/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 12:57:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4124 Soundamus (via Feed my App) is a web service that is using Last.fm userdata to generate an RSS feed of upcoming and new releases of artists that the user listens to. All that’s needed to create the feed is the username of a Last.fm user, it does not have to be your own because no personal data or password is required to generate the feed.

Well, actually it’s two feeds that are created. The first lists the upcoming releases while the second lists the releases of the previous year. I tested it with several usernames and it is working fine. It takes anywhere between 1 and 30 minutes before the feed displays the releases according to the Soundamus website although I was able to see the first items after less than a minute.

The feed items list information such as name of the album and release date. It also contains several links to pages that contain further information, some of them are located on Last.fm, some on the Soundamus website. There is also an option to add the date to Google Calendar and to buy the CD from a online shop.

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The page of the release at the Soundamus website is surprisingly clean and lists similar artists and their releases. Again with links to all kinds of sites including Last.fm.

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