One (seemingly) basic thing I’d like is to set up a list of artists, and be notified when one of them releases new music. Ideally I’d just see a long list of the most recent releases from those artists.
Does anybody have a good way of doing this, with or without Roon? There are several threads over the years asking for this sort of thing in Roon, so I’m thinking this would need to be some other service. Spotify has “Release Radar” which is pretty close to this sort of thing, but still shows a bunch of stuff I’m not interested in.
I think this would be a neat feature to have in Roon, although not entirely sure how it would be implemented.
So many ways of finding out about and keeping track of new releases. I am on quite a few artists’ email lists so get updates of releases, tours, etc. Bandcamp is also great as if you’ve bought stuff from an artist you get updates from them - also many of the labels with stuff on Bandcamp do a good job of suggesting similar artists. I check on Tidal’s new releases page every Friday, and follow a bunch of music-related websites and some other forums. The various “What are we playing now” threads on here are also great for discovering new stuff. I keep track of all upcoming releases in MacOS Notes. I’m sure I miss lots of stuff I’d be interested in, but TBH I hardly have time to listen to all the stuff I already have!
I just found that Tidal has a “Feed”, provided by the bell in the top-right corner, that shows new releases from favorite artists. It appears to update within a minute or so after adding / removing artists to the favorite artists page. So the basic answer for me is, use Tidal! But I will leave the rest of the post in case it’s useful to others.
edit: It does seem to be missing some releases, unfortunately. Those releases do exist in Tidal and show the correct release date, so I’m not sure why they wouldn’t show up in the feed.
MusicHarbor is an Apple ecosystem app that can import artists from Apple Music (subscription required) or Spotify (no subscription required), and shows new releases for those artists. I found that adding albums from within MusicHarbor to Spotify frequently chose the wrong album, but adding albums to Apple Music got them right.
MusicButler is a similar service, but is a web app, and also imports from Spotify or Apple Music. It doesn’t allow adding to Apple Music, but does to a Spotify playlist. It also sometimes chose the wrong album when adding to a playlist.
Spotify / Qobuz / TIDAL all have an idea of favorite artists distinct from library albums. Apple Music does not - it just presents a list of all artists for any tracks added to your library.
Basically, it seems like it’s helpful to keep a list of favorited artists in Spotify. There are some options then for tracking new releases and getting them into Qobuz / TIDAL:
Manually - track your artists in Spotify (which I believe does not require a paid subscription to do so). Use MusicHarbor / MusicButler to find new releases for those artists, then just search for them in Tidal / Qobuz / Roon.
Automation via Apple Music & Soundiiz - use MusicHarbor to add albums to Apple Music (which in my testing is more reliable than spotify), and then use Soundiiz to sync those albums to Tidal / Qobuz.
(maybe) Automation via Spotify & Soundiiz - if you already have the “What’s New?” in Spotify then it might give you the list of new releases right away. Then you can manually add them in Tidal / Qobuz, or use Soundiiz to transfer them.
Really great with Apple Music. Kind of essential (for me).
Both new and upcoming releases from all artists in your Apple Music library.
This and some great playlists that get updated weekly with new recommendations, means I’m getting more great new music thrown at me, than I have time to listen to ! First world problems.
Any news with this? I would like to do this with Roon as I don’t care about third party sites, as my artist list is huge and I don’t want to be adding 300+ artists manually to track their releases (nor have I ever found a site that’s decent enough to do this).
Should be fairly “simple” to do in Roon: every artist I have in my library gets added to tab or whatever with a list of all new releases.
Yes, it seems no company cares about this. Tidal doesn’t have a clear way to do this (that feed section mentioned here is gone). All we get is this ■■■■■■ recommendations that are usually far off. I can’t believe no one cares about this
This would be a great function and came across this thread as I was searching for the same function / “how to”.
If you have a Discogs acct, you can create a new list.Then search for an artist you like (not album) and on their page, select the “List” tab and below that select “add to list” which will bring up your lists etc…
This will supposedly notify you via email when a new submission for this artist is made. From what I read this shouldn’t include everyday updates / corrections. I am in no way a Discogs expert and have no idea if this works as intended. This same question is asked a ton in their forum and am relaying what I found.
I created a couple list and added some artists so I guess time will tell. I also didn’t want to create another acct on some website unless there is no alternative.
But I will leave the rest of the post in case it’s useful to others.
