What you get
Rating, tagging, and asking for what you want.
Rate
A score from 1 to 10, in one move.
A score from 1 to 10, entered with a single keystroke or a drag of the slider, while the song is still playing. No modal, no five stars where four of them mean the same thing, no thumb. A 7 and a 9 are different songs and you want different things from each - now the app knows that too. Miss the end of a track and a twenty second grace window still catches it.
Drag it, or press 9. Either one is the whole interaction.
Tag
Four axes, and any tag you add yourself.
One rating cannot answer “what do I want right now?” - that question has parts. The four axes are deliberately orthogonal: a drum & bass track and a folk track can both be vocal, and acoustic cuts across every genre. Then there is a fifth axis that ships with no vocabulary at all, because every word on it is one you coined.
Ask
One box that builds a queue, finds songs, or answers a question.
Type an instruction and a queue is built and started. Type a description and the matching songs land in front of you. Type a question and notchbot answers it from your own numbers - only ever your own numbers, never a confident guess. And it always shows how it read your words, so you can argue with the reading instead of rewriting the sentence.
- play upbeat country rock
- songs I rated 9 or better
- shuffle my 10s
- queue something loud for the gym
- what is my average score?
Send somebody a song
Share a track into a conversation from anywhere it appears, with your score attached. Read receipts are per conversation and turning them off stops them for both of you, because a receipt only one person can see is not a convenience.
One superlike every 24 hours
Spend it to pin a song at 10. One every 24 hours, so it costs something to give - and a superlike from somebody who had only one to spend says more than a hundred likes that cost nothing.
Concerts for artists you actually rate
Tour dates ranked the way your stats page ranks artists, so a catalogue you have rated forty times outranks a single you once gave a 10. Not whoever is playing nearest to you.
Queues and playlists, built from your scores
Ask for something and the queue is assembled from the songs you rated highest, band-shuffled so it is not the same twenty tracks in the same order. Any queue can be saved as a real playlist, and pushed to your music service when one is connected.
Comments pinned to a moment
Write a note at 2:14 and it stays at 2:14, for everyone who plays that song. The drop, the lyric, the bit where the drums come in - the conversation happens where it belongs instead of under the whole track.
XP, 50 levels and 25 badges
Rating and tagging pay XP, because the honest problem with a library of four thousand songs is the first afternoon. Badges mark the milestones that actually change what the app can do for you.
A feed of the people you follow
Follow friends and see what they rated, what they superliked and what they argued with. One superlike every 24 hours, spent to pin a song at 10, so it costs something to give.
Community charts
Top-rated songs across everyone who opted in, by day, week, month, year or all time, filterable by mood or genre. Ranked by average score rather than by play count, so a position reflects what people thought of a song and not how long it was left running.