Tune Tracker Is Here!

Unless you follow all your favorite artists closely on social media, it can be challenging trying to keep up with all their tour dates or find out right away when they announce their ticket sales so that you don’t find out once they’ve already sold out. To help with this issue, there are currently several apps that help you track your favorite artists, but I have found that almost 70% of the time, they have no idea who you’re actually interested in seeing.

Me for example, I use a app called bands in town to help me stay in the know when one of the artists I love decides to go on tour.  But I’ve been burned before. A couple of times, and one more painful than the other, one of my favorite bands went on tour and I never received a notification. In fact, I had no idea the band was on tour until the tickets were sold out. I was extremely disappointed. When I contacted the app to find out why I didn’t get the notification, they let me know I didn’t have any of their music saved on my phone so they weren’t being tracked. To which my reaction was, does anyone save music anymore? Everyone knows that in 2018, streaming is the thing most people do. I thought it was a fluke, but when it happened again, with another artist that I stream regularly I thought, wouldn’t it be nice if these apps could pick up on your listening behavior and suggest a tracking instead of having to use up storage on your phone to make sure you receive the notification?

Some people find cookies to be a huge invasive of privacy, but if something I genuinely need or am interested comes to me instead of me having to go find it, I’m all for it. Therefore, I’ve decided to roll out an app of my own that picks up on your listening trends and after the streaming pattern is picked up more than three times, the app will automatically prompt you to decide if this is an artist you’d wish to track. Of course it will still sync your library through Spotify, but this way, if you’re like most people who’d rather use phone storage for memories than streamable music, this app will go a long way the next time a super obscure artist who never tours rolls into your town. While we’re in the early stages of development, I’ve gone ahead and added an early design of my new app, Tune Tracker.