Hey #Musicians, if you're on #Bandwagon, the time has come.

[benpate@mastodon.social]

Hey #Musicians, if you're on #Bandwagon, the time has come.

I'm prepping the #SearchEngine and giving you a preview of how it'll work. Just jump over to bandwagon.fm and hit "Discover" to check it out.

I'm really pleased with this first step, but it will still be a just dumb, empty shell until we can get all your music is tagged, and optimize the tags/categories together.

You can read my full post at https://bandwagon.fm/2025-01-22-Search-Engine for all the details.

I can't wait to hear what you think.

[juxgd@catodon.social]

@benpate no offense but when did Bandwagon start looking so SICK

[benpate@mastodon.social]

Since today. I'm so glad you like it.

Now tell everyone to go tag their albums so they aren't buried.

@JuxGD

[mizkirsten@mastodon.social]

@benpate

Yeah, let’s go!

[adrianco@mastodon.social]

@benpate Cool. I just signed up. Need to organize some noises to store there next…

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@benpate

[benpate@mastodon.social]

Looking forward to your noise And please let me know if you have questions or need help?

@adrianco

[adrianco@mastodon.social]

@benpate Thanks! I have a bunch of stuff on a paid SoundCloud account. Is there an import script or an API so I don’t have to hand copy stuff?

[benpate@mastodon.social]

Sorry, I don't have an import from SoundCloud. Most of the album setup in manual, though I'm working on a way to just upload MP3’s (or whatever) then read all the metadata off of them.

So, it'll get easier for those who come after you, but for now it's still kinda "hard mode.”

@adrianco

[gribbles@mastodonapp.uk]

@benpate Great stuff, Ben.

Will have a play later as I upload more older tracks…

[defaultmediatransmitter@social.bitwig.community]

@benpate Interesting to see that there are albums in the #bonkwave results that are not in the #NotBonkwave results. Are we getting closer to discovering what bonkwave is?

[delanthear@mastodon.me.uk]

@benpate *updates his hashtags and adds a release* Exciting

[benpate@mastodon.social]

Thank you! I’m going to keep at this until we have something amazing.

Honestly, #Bandwagon needs more #HeavyMetal. Any tips on how to reach our fellow metal fans on the Fediverse?

@delanthear

[benpate@mastodon.social]

Yes. And also no

@defaultmediatransmitter

[benpate@mastodon.social]

Awesome. And, thank you! Please tag your albums, and explore how they show in the search results. I’m really curious to see how it works for you.

@gribbles

[delanthear@mastodon.me.uk]

@benpate Metal I'm not sure! I'll happily add a free image ad to it from https://thegothcalendar.co.uk if you like.

[benpate@mastodon.social]

That would be awesome. Yes please!

The design is very fluid right now, and I can certainly add more tags for Goth music and other related genres. I’m open to whatever works best

@delanthear

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@benpate not sure what the best channel is for feedback, defaulting to here so I think the "#8-bit" tag is not selectable (probably needs to drop the hyphen?). I think this looks really nice. Would be interested in an API...

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@benpate also, frustratingly, I don't seem to be able to like or follow directly, which makes me a bit sad.

[benpate@mastodon.social]

@andypiper Thanks! Yeah, I saw that too, on 8-bit specifically. Need to figure out why that specific label is breaking my widget.

Artists can put any tags in that they want, but server admins can choose which ones they feature, and which ones they hide.

What sort of API would you like? I could pretty easily give you a JSON feed of, what… all the tags? all the albums? search results only?