Hello people of Product Hunt!
First of all, shout out to Özgür Özer for the submission, many thanks!
trainspottr.fm is an app that gives you all the music shared out by pages you follow in Facebook, in one big playlist (and of course individual page playlists). I created it in my spare time over the last year, as I realised that all these producers and bands I was liking on Facebook were actually sharing out really great music, but I wasn't seeing any of it in my Facebook feed... I realised that this is a goldmine of music (new tracks from your favourite bands, as well as direct recommendations from them too), but there was no easy way to listen to it. As a music lover, this was a little bit frustrating. So, over the next year trainspottr.fm was born :)
It works by following all the music related pages you like on Facebook, and then extracting Youtube and Soundcloud links in the posts from these pages. It actually grabs embeds from webpages linked as well, so if someone shares out a blog post of "top 10 tracks of the summer" you'll get those 10 tracks in your feed. So online music mags like Pitchfork, FACT Magazine, Electronic Beats etc. are totally covered.
I'm really interested to hear feedback from the Product Hunt community. Looking forward to your comments! And thank you all for your taking the time to check it out!
Max
Love the concept, but mine is surfacing a bunch of podcasts (and in one notable case, a baleen whale call thanks to Discover Magazine) -- is there a way to filter so I just see music?
@jacobbendicksen you got a baleen whale call in your feed? That's a feature, not a bug! ;)
But seriously, regarding podcasts in the feed, I understand this isn't ideal and I'll be filtering out certain categories of tracks server side soon. trainspottr.fm is just for music after all.
In the meantime, if most of the podcasts are coming from the a certain page or pages, you can simply unfollow them in the "Following" screen. trainspottr.fm attempts to only follow music related pages when you sign up, but some border line cases can make it in.
Hope that helps, and thanks for checking out trainspottr.fm!
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