What is Friend's Tapes?
Friend's Tapes is a hassle-free new music notifications app.
It will notify you about new music releases from your favourite bands and artists.
Every time they release new albums, EPs, and singles, Friend's Tapes will send you a short email alert with the link to listen to the release on Spotify.
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Comments and Reviews
Fresh breath of old school simplicity in the world of streaming services and recommendation systems.
Don’t like poisoning your brain and wasting time on social media? Frustrated by iTunes’ dysfunctional and abandoned, yet still not decommissioned, ‘Alert Me’ feature? Friend’s Tapes to the rescue!
Instant email alerts for your favorite bands/artists, a comprehensive library and helpful support representatives. I believe each email gets around a 50 subscription limit. However, if you contact support for an extension, it appears they will honor it. The limit is probably a filter for spammers and potential ddos attacks or server flooding.
My only minor gripes with the service is that you must subscribe to each band/artist individually, which can take some time depending on first-time subscribers and their current library size. Also, the search results list seems to suffer some scrolling issues, at least in Safari on iPhone.
Nonetheless, I will still give this service 5 stars and will more than likely recommend it to others in need of such functionality.
Thanks for the review, we really appreciate it! We're working on mobile version fixes and Spotify integration to help you choose your favourite bands and artists.
I don't like social media. I don't care about news, or drama, or what memes my favorite band reshared. I just want to know when new albums come out. That's it. And I prefer receiving notifications via email. Therefore, Friend's Tapes is perfect for my use case, and if your use case is similar to mine, you'll like it, too.
I have a large music collection and a broad taste in musical artists. I don’t subscribe to music streaming services because I prefer to manage, build, and own my collection music. A constant problem I experienced was not knowing when my favorite artists released new songs or albums. I previously used iTunes artist notifications, but it left something to be desired. iTunes did not notify me when new releases occurred :( I tried other notification services, but none of them gave me the timely or accurate notifications that I desired. I was so excited when I discovered Friend’s Tapes. Initially I was skeptical of the free service, but after using it for almost a month, I am extremely happy with the service. Friend’s Tapes provides the perfect solution, notifying me via email whenever one of my favorite artists releases new content. In the limited time I have been using Friend’s Tapes, I have already discovered multiple releases that I was not aware of. I love Friend’s Tapes! I especially love the Friend’s Tape feature where it sends me the latest released song/album for a new artist that I have added to my notifications.