Roadie is live
With Christmas and the new year’s eve behind us, I realized I didn’t post much lately, that’s because there was much to be done in the past month and I could direct my attention here (sigh).
Anyway, just a quick reminder to tell you that our first experiment at Think Orange went online last week: Roadie.
Roadie is a free service where you pick the artists or bands that interest you and we’ll generate a customized RSS Feed or iCal with their new releases.
Right now, importing your artists from Last.fm is a bit slow as well as generating the feed for the first time but once it’s on your feed reader it’s good to go. Add it to your Netvibes, Google Page or favorite feed reader and never miss another release.
With Roadie done it’s time to look forward for new experiments and projects, expect 2010 to be very busy. 
Special thanks to Bruno Afonso for the design.
Update: Roadie was mentioned on The Next Web and Read Write Web. Thanks!
Here’s some screens, enjoy:
Two things.
First, get a contact form up on that site. How do you want people to report issues or suggest stuff ?
Second, Roadie makes the same mistake ideomag does with news: I can only get a feed for my top 50 artists. Now I happen to be a guy who listens to lot of different bands, well over 50 artists. What if I want to be on top of everything from all those artists ? Yes, top 50 should be an option, not everyone is as obsessive about music as I am, but still, the api provides this data, so it’s possible to do this.
I’ve had a similar project on the oven for little more than a year now, which never really got done due to a huge lack of time and more ambitious goals (it’s mostly about overall news, not only releases), so it’s nice to see others are having similar ideas and getting them done, but still, I think some choice is important.
I’ll make sure to bash Kinesthai in the head with this stuff when I find him around the workplace
Looks great – but it only picks up _two_ of my favourite artists on last.fm (out of, well, a lot more).
Any chance it can be made to pick up more ? I’d rather throw out surplus artists myself than have to manually add those which weren’t picked up.
Looks very promising, though…
I think you should allow people to log in rather than have the bookmark option. This way the lists are not public available and cannot be changed without logging in. I really like this though and hope that development continues.
thanks for the input.
@devo initialy we made it without login to keep it straightforward but some suggestions like private listings or twitter reminders will need some sort of individual login so we’re looking into it.
@snurb can you tell me which some artists aren’t being picked up?
@tiago you’re right, I should add a contact form.
last.fm only imports top 50 favorite, but you can add more on top of those in roadie.
Bash Kinesthai good.
@psousa Probably easiest if you try and replicate the problem using my last.fm username (also Snurb). Of my most listened-to artists, Roadie only picked up Pink Floyd (my #4 artist) and Genesis (#27), for some reason. Everyone else was missing…
When I tried entering my username a second time, I got duplicates of those two in the list, by the way.
I’ve since added a number of other artists manually, but it would be great to just pick up everyone automatically (and I’m with @tiago – don’t stop at #50)…
Typo alert on the homepage of Roadie! How could you
“their recently released or brand new albuns.”
I bet that has to be “albums”…..