Record Club, which actually first opened its doors a couple of years ago, is continuing to grow and getting more attention as a potential Letterboxd for music enthusiasts. Music has been a major part of my life since my teens—across cassette tapes, CDs, MP3s, and streaming services—so I was keen to give it a try.
Record Club is free to use with no ads, with a $4-per-month subscription available if you want to support the project. You get some extras such as better list management and the ability to choose preferred cover art in your library. You also get extensive personalized stats, and the ability to add personalized notes to releases.
Record Club is easy to navigate
Click through on any album, and you get a bunch of information about it. There's the track listing, plus details on how popular the album is on the Record Club network (its average rating and number of listeners, as well as reviews). You can see when it was originally released, and its total running time.
Everything is very clickable, searchable, and social. Follow a link to another user (you'll be given suggestions for who to follow as soon as you get started), and you get to see what they're currently listening to, their top five records, the reviews they've left on releases, and which upcoming releases they're planning to listen to.
You'll find all the music you listen to on Record Club. Credit: LifehackerProfile. Switch to Preferences and you get to control some of the ways that Record Club works, and under Privacy you can choose what's shown on your profile, or make it private (so only people who know your username will be able to find you).
The headers along the top of the web interface link to the key sections of the platform: Browse (for checking out new music), Community (for checking out what other listeners are up to), and Activity (for reviewing your own listening). It's really when you start to use the tracking and social features of Record Club that it really comes into its own though, and when the Letterboxd comparisons become most apt.
How to get started with Record Club
Finding new music couldn't be any easier: Type the name of the artist and album, and it'll quickly pop up. You don't have to keep music titles in your rotation pile to tell Record Club that you've listened to them, as you can click the three dots on any cover art across the site and choose Listen to log it.
There's also Queue for music you want to listen to but haven't done yet, and the option to leave a rating or a review. I tend to leave ratings much more often than reviews, as they're easier: I'm usually agonizing over the right words to say in a review and the right tone to take, and then I end up not publishing it anyway.
List-making is one of the key features of Record Club. Credit: LifehackerIf you head to your profile page by clicking your avatar (top right) and then Profile, you get your very own top five albums of all time to show off—just click Edit next to the relevant section to make your choices. One neat touch: If you click the three dots by the top five, you can save these picks as an image, so you can share them on other platforms as well.
I like making lists, too. Click Create up at the top of the web interface and you're able to choose List to start making some public or private lists. You can organize your favorite albums in a particular genre, a starter pack of songs for a specific band, the best double albums in history, or whatever it is you want to list.
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