Is there a good app for discover new music?
The right features exist but the execution is buggy, dated, or painful. Out-execute it.
50
Opportunity /100
66
Demand /100
85
Competition /100
77
Execution gap /100
10
Apps serving it
9
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to discover new music, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| hard to discover new music | missing-feature | 1 | I wish it were much easier to find new music |
| poor new music discovery / recommendations | other | 1 | New music that is a genre i like is almost near impossible to find |
| can't identify new music | reliability | 1 | Hasn’t been able to identify new songs for a couple years now |
| more music variety | missing-feature | 1 | wish there was more of a variety of songs though |
| can't detect new songs | reliability | 1 | Now it no longer detects any new songs |
| can't recognize new music | reliability | 1 | it doesn’t recognize hardly any new music |
| cannot download new music | bug | 1 | Now I can’t download new music! |
| can't find desired music | missing-feature | 1 | I can’t find any music I want |
| new releases missing from new music tab | bug | 1 | all new albums don’t show in the new releases tab |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundCloud: The Music You Love | 4.8★ | 1,868,955 | Free |
| Trending Music Player | 4.6★ | 307,478 | Free |
| Apple Music | 4.9★ | 2,807,718 | Free |
| YouTube Music | 4.8★ | 1,513,717 | Free |
| Soundmap: Find Your Songs | 4.8★ | 339,447 | Free |
| TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports | 4.7★ | 1,107,429 | Free |
| TIDAL Music: HiFi Sound | 4.7★ | 239,593 | Free |
| Shazam: Find Music & Concerts | 4.9★ | 8,696,835 | Free |
Should you build it?
The right features exist but the execution is buggy, dated, or painful. Out-execute it. Opportunity here scores 50 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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