Discover your next favorite album with MusicFeed

How to use MusicFeed: a quick start

1. Choose a genre. Start with Jazz, Soul, Deep House, Indie Rock or another genre in the picker. Use the search field to find it quickly.
2. Select “Recommend an album”. MusicFeed finds a matching album and displays its artist, title, cover, release year and available listening links.
3. Open Spotify or TIDAL. A service button opens the album in a new tab. MusicFeed helps you find music; listening happens on the streaming service.
4. Save what you love. Use the heart to add an album to Favorites and the stars to give it your own rating.
5. Keep exploring. Choose “Next album” for another recommendation. Previously recommended albums remain in your local History.

Discover full albums by music genre

The Discover view lets you combine up to 12 genres. You can also save your preferred genres in Settings and use “My genres” when you want to explore your usual listening territory. Hide genres you do not want to see in the picker without changing the shared catalogue.

Stay focused or include related genres

Leave “Include related genres” off for a focused selection. Turn it on if you are happy to explore nearby styles when the available selection is limited. A related-genre recommendation is labeled, so you can see when MusicFeed has widened the search.

See more than a title and cover

Open “More about this album” for available details such as duration, track count, Last.fm listener figures, descriptive text and a track listing. Some sources do not provide every field, so the information shown varies by album. Source descriptions are not your personal star ratings.

Your latest recommendation stays in Discover when you switch tabs or reload the page. It changes when you ask for another album. “Already know it” and “Not for me” also start another recommendation and keep the previous album in History.

Save favorite albums and rate your discoveries

The heart saves an album to Favorites. Your one-to-five-star rating is separate: you can rate an album without adding it to Favorites, or save a favorite without rating it. Ratings can be changed later in the album details and lists. Click the selected star again to clear your rating.

Favorites are organized by genre. An album saved from Discover uses the genre assigned to that recommendation rather than appearing in every source tag. Combine a genre folder with the four-star or five-star filter to narrow your collection; those filters match exactly four or exactly five stars. Choose “All” to remove the rating filter.

Add an album manually from Spotify or TIDAL

1. Open Favorites and choose “Add manually”.
2. Paste a direct Spotify or TIDAL album link, then choose “Load album”. Track and playlist links are not supported.
3. MusicFeed loads the available album information and looks for a matching album on the other service. A missing or temporarily unavailable match is shown in the form.
4. Choose one genre from the existing list, optionally add stars, and save. The album is added to Favorites with the heart selected.

Importing the same album again does not create a second copy. Different releases are matched using the album identity and verified service identifiers where available.

Explore 100 critically acclaimed albums

Album picks is a fixed editorial selection of 100 critically acclaimed albums across genres and decades—not a live streaming chart or an official best-to-worst ranking. No position numbers are shown. The aim is to explore the selection and collect new favorites along the way. Each album has one main library genre. Saving an album you already own preserves its existing genre and rating. The selection also includes the explicitly chosen live albums and compilation; these do not change the rules for regular discovery.

• Spotify or TIDAL: opening a listening link reduces the “left to listen to” count once. The album stays in the list so you can rate it. Opening it again does not subtract it again.
• Heart: saves the album to Favorites and removes it from Album picks.
• Trash: removes the album from Rankings without adding it to Favorites.

MusicFeed records your action in the list; it does not monitor whether you finish playback on Spotify or TIDAL. Missing listening links mean a matching release has not been verified, not necessarily that the album does not exist on that service.

Keep your music library without an account

Your album history, favorites, ratings, album-pick progress and settings are stored in this browser on this device. English and Czech MusicFeed share one library when used on the same domain. Other browsers, browser profiles and devices have separate libraries; they do not automatically sync.

Back up your library regularly. Clearing website data, using a browser cleanup tool or closing a private-browsing session can remove your saved library. Without an exported backup, local data may not be recoverable.

Export a backup

Open Settings → My library and choose “Export”. Save the downloaded JSON file somewhere safe. It contains your library and settings; it is not an audio download.

Import or move to another device

Copy your exported file to the other device, open MusicFeed in the browser you want to use, and choose “Import” in Settings → My library. Select the JSON file. Albums are merged without duplicates: existing ratings are preserved and missing ratings are filled from the backup. Settings are restored only into an empty library.

The expandable “i” next to Import and Export explains the process. It also includes a transfer option for people who used the earlier account-based version. Original server data is not deleted by that transfer; access to it still requires the existing authenticated browser session.

How MusicFeed chooses album recommendations

MusicFeed starts with genre-tagged album and artist data from Last.fm, explores related artists, and checks streaming matches on Spotify and TIDAL. The album itself must have evidence for the requested genre; an artist’s broad genre alone is not enough.

Eligible albums are ranked using available signals such as genre relevance, listener interest and verified streaming availability. Popularity is scaled so that the largest artists do not dominate every selection. Weighted random selection mixes higher-scoring albums with less obvious discoveries, while recent artists are avoided when the catalogue allows it.

Your reactions gently influence future choices. Albums already stored in your local library are excluded from new recommendations using their shared identities and verified identifiers. This protection depends on keeping your local library or restoring its backup. Discogs is currently disabled and is not used as an alternative recommendation source.

Streaming checks currently use Czech-region catalogues. Availability can differ in your country, and MusicFeed cannot grant access to a release that your streaming service does not offer. A new genre or an unverified album can take longer to prepare; source rate limits can also delay a recommendation.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to sign in to MusicFeed?

No. You can discover albums and save your library without a MusicFeed account. Spotify and TIDAL have their own access requirements for listening.

Does MusicFeed play or download music?

No. MusicFeed recommends albums and provides listening links. Playback takes place on Spotify or TIDAL under that service’s terms.

Why is an album appearing again on my other device?

Each device or browser profile has its own history. Export your library from the original browser and import it on the other device to carry over the albums you have already discovered.

Can more than one person use MusicFeed?

Yes. People can use the shared discovery catalogue at the same time while keeping independent libraries in their own browsers. People sharing one browser profile share its local library; use separate profiles to keep collections apart.

Why is no new album ready for my genre?

The catalogue may be preparing more matches, a source may be temporarily limiting requests, or you may have exhausted the currently eligible albums. Try again later, choose another genre or allow related genres. An empty selection does not mean there is no music in that style.