MusicHarbor

Marcos Tanaka’s amazing utility for keeping track of new music releases has been updated with a feature I publicly wished for just a few weeks ago: MusicHarbor can now automatically add singles from upcoming albums to a specific playlist. I’ve always dreamed of this functionality: before a new album from one of my favorite artists is coming out, I like to “prepare” for it by listening to singles that have already been released, so I can get a sense of what to expect. (I understand why some folks like to stay away from singles, much like they do with movie and videogame spoilers; I respect that. However, in this attention-based economy where so much good entertainment is released every week, I need to optimize my time-to-curiosity ratio as much as possible.) With this feature, MusicHarbor now provides a built-in solution to have a dedicated area for “studying” upcoming albums via singles. Due to a bug, the feature isn’t working with Spotify for me at the moment, but Tanaka is investigating the issue, so I hope I’ll be able to take advantage of it myself soon.