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Users should be able to unfollow artists. Many times a user may have a few songs from an artist in their saved tracks, but not actually want to know when they release new music.

We should allow them to stop following that artist.

@bsharpe Not sure if this is related to your recent refactor, but the "Artists" listing is...repetative. :)

https://droptune.co/artists

Currently you can view older album releases by year. But really, anything over 10 years ago we should just reduce to the decade instead of a single year.

ie.

• 2000's
• 1990's
• 1980's
• 1970's

I'm not sure what the right solution to this is, but I thought I'd open an issue talking about the problem from my perspective to start a discussion.

Apple Music is really poor at surfacing new albums from artists that I would like, even though it has 11 years of my listening data. Droptune is great because it shows me everything, but this is now a bit too much. When I started I got a lot of classical music because I had a few classical artists in my collection, even though I haven't listened to them for years. I found that if I unfollowed them that cleaned up my recommendations, but many people probably won't want to do that much curation.

It would be great if Droptune could look at my listening history and highlight in some way the albums that I am most likely to care about, and maybe deemphasise the ones I'm less likely to care about.

Some ideas:

• Track which albums are new since the last time I opened the Droptune homepage and add a desaturation filter to the ones I've seen before, to just highlight what's new
• Add a badge or bold text to the albums from artists which have high frecency (frequency/recency)
• Add multiple 'tracks' in the list of new albums, with a hotlist track at the top for the albums that Droptune thinks you'll be most interested in
• Add thumbs up/down buttons on each album to help tune suggestions
• Add filtering buttons to the homepage for showing singles and collections. These are currently in the settings and so aren't easy to quickly turn off and on.
• Add section headers by week (This week, last week, two weeks ago) to help group the albums and make them easier to scan.

Right now every page has the default "Droptune" for the <title> tag.

We need to make them more relevant.

Users should be able to search for and follow artists.

I'm not sure how easy/hard this is to do given that you're working with third-party players, but it would be pretty nice if the player persisted across page loads. This would mean you could start playing one new album and continue to browse other new albums. https://changelog.com/posts/why-we-chose-turbolinks shows how they did it, though they got to control the player.

We need a logo. 😄

https://droptune.co/artists/5818-coheed-and-cambria

Specifically:

• https://droptune.co/albums/112696-coheed-and-cambria-the-color-before-the-sun

• https://droptune.co/albums/112697-coheed-and-cambria-the-color-before-the-sun

• https://droptune.co/albums/112717-coheed-and-cambria-the-afterman-ascension-deluxe

• https://droptune.co/albums/112714-coheed-and-cambria-the-afterman-ascension-deluxe-edition

One listing includes Apple Music, the other doesn't.

A major bottleneck in our data processing is Spotify.

Checking for new music is very resource intensive as the only way (that I'm aware of) to do it is to loop through every single artist, then loop through every one of that artist's albums to see if any are new.

This means a single artist can generate dozens if not hundreds of individual jobs and calls to the Spotify API.

Even if we can't figure out a workaround with the Spotify API itself, maybe there's a clever way to decide when an artist actually needs updated.

i.e. An artist that hasn't released anything in 30 years has a relatively low chance of releasing something now...yet we still check them every. single. day.

All artist pages are showing many duplicate "fans".

Possibly related to @bsharpe's PR: #79

https://droptune.co/artists/5620-pale-waves

We should send daily/weekly/monthly email summaries of new releases.

Not sure if this is a Apple Music only thing or if Spotify does this too. Also happy to have a look at this and PR.

Right now we load all of a given users followed artists in one big swoop. That's craziness.

It should progressively load them as they scroll.

Related to #31.

Loading every artist in the first view is...silly.

We should paginate the view or at least progressively load as you scroll.

Show the top albums based on artists with the most followers.

I had previously signed up as flybayer and connected Apple Music and Spotify. I was getting a bunch of new music I didn't care about from my Spotify graveyard. So to remove all those I canceled my Droptune account, and then created a new one with the same Twitter.

Right after first login to the new account, the Apple Music button says "Refresh Apple Music Library" instead of "Connect".

When I click "Refresh Apple Music Library" the button text changes to "Scanning .." but the API call returns a 500 error.

Looks like I hit an unexpected edge case 😬

Currently we're not checking for new artists/albums, which is problematic.

Each time I refresh the page I see a new name on the navbar. Seems like logged username is being cached and I'm being served someone's cache.

It would be awesome to add support for both Bandcamp and Discogs. Mainly the reason to also follow your underrepresented artists, who are often only available on Bandcamp. The reason for Discogs is to follow artists who only release on vinyl, their releases are not available on digital streaming platforms.

They both have an available API:

Bandcamp
https://bandcamp.com/developer

Discogs
https://www.discogs.com/developers

So, getting this up and running locally requires you to have Twitter and Spotify tokens/keys...which makes it a bit of a hassle for anyone other than me to work on it.

Namely, you'd have to go set up your own Twitter and Spotify apps.

Anyone have some ideas on how to get around that?

Would like to start adding some community features around items. First order of business will be commenting.

These items should allow commenting...

• Artist
• Album
• Music Video

Expands what services people can use with Droptune (namely Apple Music).

Could be fun to make a tool that suggests new artists/albums/tracks to you based on your library/listening history.

We show one item at a time with a 30-second clip...you think give it a thumbs up/down and go to the next.

Might be a neat way to quickly find new artists you love.

Following the How to start steps in the README, an error is encountered when no APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY ENV variable is set. Generating a private key following these steps successfully bypasses the error.

Additionally, there are apple_app_key and apple_team_key referenced in app/models/apple_music.rb, but I don't know where those come from.

I think this would be absolutely rad. Would be a nice to be able to just hit play and listen to the new music, instead of going to each album/single individually. Maybe offer the ability to e.g. filter out singles, include the full album in the playlist vs only X number of songs, and other customizations?

Spotify's API allows playlist creation and management. Not sure if Apple Music allows something similar, as I don't use it often, but that would be ideal.

Could probably use something like sidekiq-cron with sidekiq-unique-jobs to run a daily worker that keeps the playlist up to date (not 100% sure how things are currently set up but I'll dig in soon).

(This is not intended as a criticism; rather I'm hoping that pointing out potentially confusing UX issues is helpful 😄)

Currently, the Connections section in settings does not update to reflect if a service is already connected. I've connected Spotify, but I'm still offered the option to... connect Spotify 😅

N.B. I also noticed that when initially connecting a service as prompted after signing in with Twitter, I was flashed a success message, but also still saw the prompt to connect. I didn't get a screenshot of that, though.

Apple's MusicKit JS library allows authenticating in the browser and, in turn, pulling in a user's Apple Music library!

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickitjs/

Given it's completely javascript based, the user would need to leave their browser window open while we iterated through their library to get their "saved artists", but that'd be relatively quick, and then we could go through the process of pulling album details and what not on the backend.

In my head the way this works is...

1. User authenticates with MusicKit JS
2. We hit the music.api.library.artists endpoint
3. Paginate through the results (which gives us the iTunes ID and the artist name)
4. Send those results to the backend in groups to be processed using Sidekiq
5. Sidekiq goes through each artist and calls the iTunes API to pull a given artists album library
6. That data is then saved to Droptune database just like Spotify
7. $$$$

It would be great to be able to show more on the "most recent" albums view. Or have an infinite scroll type of behavior. Rather than having to click through every single month.

This morning I noticed that album views do not seem to have a Spotify embed, whereas I recall them having that the list time I used Droptune.

I also noticed a js error in the devtools console; not sure if it's related:

Should there be a Spotify embed on this page? If so, is there anything I can do to help debug this further?

Add a Rss feed to get new albums (still follow blogs for this reason!). (Happy to spend some time on it soon.)

Currently only possible via Last.fm.

You can almost do it with the Apple Music API: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/get_recently_played_resources

Unfortunately, that seems to only return high level "resources"...albums and playlists that the track is in vs. the track itself. :(

Example output...

{
   "next":"/v1/me/recent/played?offset=5",
   "data":[
      {
         "id":"pl.u-PPzgCgAeNB",
         "type":"playlists",
         "href":"/v1/catalog/us/playlists/pl.u-PPzgCgAeNB",
         "attributes":{
            "lastModifiedDate":"2018-09-05T16:00:08Z",
            "curatorName":"Josh Pigford",
            "url":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/the-chillest/pl.u-PPzgCgAeNB",
            "name":"The Chillest",
            "artwork":{
               "width":2400,
               "height":2400,
               "url":"https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/wWP_am462ukU5WVcCDbGlQ/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg",
               "bgColor":"030301",
               "textColor1":"ffffff",
               "textColor2":"ecd8c0",
               "textColor3":"cccccc",
               "textColor4":"bdad9a"
            },
            "playParams":{
               "id":"pl.u-PPzgCgAeNB",
               "kind":"playlist"
            },
            "playlistType":"user-shared"
         }
      },
      {
         "id":"pl.u-YG4gILagje",
         "type":"playlists",
         "href":"/v1/catalog/us/playlists/pl.u-YG4gILagje",
         "attributes":{
            "lastModifiedDate":"2018-09-01T05:02:10Z",
            "curatorName":"Josh Pigford",
            "description":{
               "standard":"New music from Droptune"
            },
            "url":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/droptune-new-music/pl.u-YG4gILagje",
            "name":"Droptune New Music",
            "artwork":{
               "width":2400,
               "height":2400,
               "url":"https://is3-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/zj5eQwvrRwkHWWRov0zjng/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg",
               "bgColor":"000000",
               "textColor1":"e9ede5",
               "textColor2":"f0ead2",
               "textColor3":"babdb7",
               "textColor4":"c0bba8"
            },
            "playParams":{
               "id":"pl.u-YG4gILagje",
               "kind":"playlist"
            },
            "playlistType":"user-shared"
         }
      },
      {
         "id":"pl.u-Z6xpIq5VvL",
         "type":"playlists",
         "href":"/v1/catalog/us/playlists/pl.u-Z6xpIq5VvL",
         "attributes":{
            "lastModifiedDate":"2018-08-24T00:12:25Z",
            "curatorName":"Josh Pigford",
            "url":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/workout/pl.u-Z6xpIq5VvL",
            "name":"Workout",
            "artwork":{
               "width":2400,
               "height":2400,
               "url":"https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/TbAU2TmN3LepW9JZ7Z8Rrw/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg",
               "bgColor":"1c1616",
               "textColor1":"ffffff",
               "textColor2":"fcfdeb",
               "textColor3":"d1d0d0",
               "textColor4":"cfcfc0"
            },
            "playParams":{
               "id":"pl.u-Z6xpIq5VvL",
               "kind":"playlist"
            },
            "playlistType":"user-shared"
         }
      },
      {
         "id":"1396292262",
         "type":"albums",
         "href":"/v1/catalog/us/albums/1396292262",
         "attributes":{
            "artwork":{
               "width":3670,
               "height":3670,
               "url":"https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music125/v4/90/bc/c6/90bcc6d6-a0c8-3a71-b10a-4840f8563d22/00602567721598.rgb.jpg/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg",
               "bgColor":"0b0b0b",
               "textColor1":"dedede",
               "textColor2":"c6c6c6",
               "textColor3":"b4b4b4",
               "textColor4":"a1a1a1"
            },
            "artistName":"Troye Sivan",
            "isSingle":false,
            "url":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bloom/1396292262",
            "isComplete":true,
            "genreNames":[
               "Pop",
               "Music",
               "Rock"
            ],
            "trackCount":10,
            "isMasteredForItunes":true,
            "releaseDate":"2018-08-31",
            "name":"Bloom",
            "recordLabel":"EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd",
            "copyright":"An EMI Music Australia production; ℗ 2018 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.",
            "playParams":{
               "id":"1396292262",
               "kind":"album"
            },
            "editorialNotes":{
               "short":"The pop star’s warm second album celebrates love and self-discovery."
            },
            "contentRating":"explicit"
         }
      },
      {
         "id":"1312021964",
         "type":"albums",
         "href":"/v1/catalog/us/albums/1312021964",
         "attributes":{
            "artwork":{
               "width":3000,
               "height":3000,
               "url":"https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music118/v4/46/ca/10/46ca1035-cefb-bcd4-ea4f-ac8679c23ad8/UMG_cvrart_00602567232056_01_RGB72_3000x3000_17UM1IM44608.jpg/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg",
               "bgColor":"0c000c",
               "textColor1":"dbbbe7",
               "textColor2":"df9e72",
               "textColor3":"b296bb",
               "textColor4":"b57e5e"
            },
            "artistName":"Fickle Friends",
            "isSingle":false,
            "url":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/you-are-someone-else/1312021964",
            "isComplete":true,
            "genreNames":[
               "Pop",
               "Music",
               "Pop/Rock",
               "Rock",
               "Electronic"
            ],
            "trackCount":16,
            "isMasteredForItunes":true,
            "releaseDate":"2018-03-16",
            "name":"You Are Someone Else",
            "recordLabel":"Polydor",
            "copyright":"℗ 2018 Polydor Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited",
            "playParams":{
               "id":"1312021964",
               "kind":"album"
            },
            "contentRating":"explicit"
         }
      }
   ]
}

There’s not a great source of actively updated music video data. Allow users to submit recent videos which an admin can approve.

Cool project, @Shpigford!
One frustration I had with Spotify is their lack of labeling "singles" as such in New Releases.
Apple Music does a much better job of this, but it would be great to have consistent labels as to whether a new release is a single.

Not sure if it's related to #50

Visiting https://droptune.co/artists loads an insane amount of requests. My Macbook was about to take flight destined to reach orbit~~

Let users "favorite" or "love/heart" an album. Use case that seems really interesting is ranking Upcoming albums to see which ones people are most excited about.

I was slightly surprised to see that all of my music preferences are publicly visible to everyone. It's not a huge deal for me, but it would probably be good to make that clearer to people, and also to give them the option (maybe the default?) for their profile and music preferences to be private. A music collection could reveal a lot of information about somebody, so people should be able to make a choice about it.

(I realise that this is all super early and I'm not upset/grumpy about this missing feature, just adding it as something to think about for the future).

Would be cool if you could e.g. click the Spotify icon on the album cover to open directly in Spotify and start listening to the album without having to click through to the album then to the Spotify embed.

The Latest Music Releases page currently just loads in new albums from the past 3 weeks (which is a bit arbitrary).

I'd like to lower that to past 7 days, then let you scroll down and load more albums/dates as you scroll.

After signing up with Twitter (OAuth succeeded), I'm given sign up options again, which makes it seem like the registration failed (i.e. I'm not signed in and asked to sign up again):

Then when I try to sign in with Twitter, it redirects me back to the same page after the successful OAuth. When I choose Spotify, I get a 406 Not Acceptable HTTP response after a successful OAuth flow. I've tried revoking the Twitter OAuth access and going through the flow again to no avail.

• Create Spotify URI links that open Spotify directly
• Add button to save the track/album directly

Show the most followed artists.

I have a bunch of duplicates from apple music in both of these sections. Not sure why. I checked to see if it was because of different types (explicit and clean versions) but that's not it. I have singles and compilations off.

Here is an example from the upcoming release section:

This would be a huge win, primarily so we can let folks connect their Apple Music account.