About Raygum
A nice place to keep your music brain.
The short version
Raygum is a website. You use it to keep track of the music you like, the music you used to like, the music you've been told you should like, and the music you'll get round to one day. Albums, EPs, singles, weird limited 12-inches—it's all in here.
Rate things out of five, file them into playlists, follow the artists who keep doing it for you, read the news the day it breaks, and see what other people thought. That's mostly it.
01 / PURPOSE
What Raygum is for
Music is more than something to be served up and played. Raygum helps people remember what they heard, say what they noticed, and make sense of music together. We use open data and machines where they are useful, but people—not profiles—decide what matters.
Read the manifesto02 / THE BASICS
What you can do
Search for an artist, find their stuff, give it a rating out of five. Follow the artists you care about and we'll tell you when they release something or end up in the news. Make playlists. Read what other people made of last week's releases. Link up Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer or YouTube so you can press play without leaving. None of it costs anything.
03 / THE CATALOGUE
Built on open data
Most of the data here comes from MusicBrainz, the open music encyclopedia hand-tended by a community of obsessives since 2000. They do the hard part; we make it look nicer and easier to argue about.
04 / SAY HELLO
Get in touch
Found a bug? Want a feature? Think a release is filed wrong? Just want to talk about music? It comes to me directly. I read all of them.
Send a message05 / WHAT'S NEXT
Lots, probably.
New things go in when they're ready. Old things get fixed when they break. If you've got ideas, see left.