Lazyrecords, a new free music discovery app, is helping listeners venture beyond the confines of algorithm-based streaming services to find fresh tunes.
Tailored specifically for DJs, the tool compiles close to 8 million releases from Discogs’ online record database. lazyrecords then recommends songs at random based on genre filters, rather than tracking users’ data and pushing songs based on popularity, such as Spotify, Apple Music, and other major streaming platforms.
Co-creators and DJs Comfort Zone and Andrew Nowacki announced the app’s launch on the club music subreddit r/TheOverload last weekend, highlighting additional features such as autoplay, saving tracks to personal playlists, and “The Global Feed,” which acts as a constantly evolving communal playlist, according to their post.
Users can also follow each other to see which tracks they’ve saved and which they’ve added to The Global Feed. And, in good news for those who tend to get lost in the music, lazyrecords keeps track of your entire listening history.
“I’ve found this to be really useful in conjunction with the ‘Autoplay’ feature as I’ll often keep the app running in the background while doing chores or work and may want to return to something I liked but didn’t get the ID of,” Comfort Zone and Nowacki wrote of the feature.
Lazyrecords is still in the development phase, and its founders are asking the community for feedback and feature requests. Additional filters based on release decade and musical mood are currently being developed.
Learn more about lazyrecords algorithm-free music discovery tool on the app’s Instagram page and try it out for yourself here.
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