Oscillator, Inc.
Movie lovers have Letterboxd.
Book lovers have Goodreads.
Now ... music lovers have Factory.fm.
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Factory.fm is a simple app for logging your favourite music.
Rate albums, write a short review or memory, and bookmark what others are listening to.
We think Factory will deepen your connection to music — especially albums — and create a home for people who are as obsessed with music as we are.
Join the waitlist to get early access here.
“Building a personal cartography of albums feels beautiful and magical. I could talk about music in this way all day” - Yuri
Since the dawn of the streaming era our connection to music has been worn down.
We listen to nameless playlists in the background while the algorithm tries to filter through 100,000 new tracks uploaded every day.
We’re not here to replace or compete with those services — streaming is incredibly efficient and powerful — but it’s missing context, depth and social features.
That’s the gap that Factory.fm fills.
Factory.fm allows you to rate, review and log your personal catalog of music. You can add context and memories to the albums that shaped your life and connect with others that share your music taste.
It’s a place for the music that makes you … you.
While Factory.fm is a fun and engaging app on its own, there’s also a bigger vision underneath.
Factory.fm is the first step to creating a global music profile — a social graph of music tied to your identity, that you can take with you across music apps in the future.
Imagine hopping from Factory.fm to another app and your followers are already populated there. Your favourite artists and albums are waiting for you, with rewards and incentives automatically applied.
This is not how the internet currently works.
But it should.
Factory.fm itself is not a crypto app.
Yes, you can sign in with Ethereum, but you can also just use an email address. It’s time to reach beyond the existing crypto user base and meet music fans where they already are.
For that reason, anyone can use factory.fm without touching crypto or doing anything onchain.
The magic all happens at the protocol level. All your music data from Factory.fm will live on Oscillator — an open source protocol that will allow other apps to plug in and share data.
In the future that means we can build music legos. New apps can build on top of Factory.fm’s foundations, allowing artists and fans to have control over their music data and take it with them between apps.
We are currently sharing Factory.fm with a small group of early testers. If you want to get access please join the waitlist or reach out to someone on the team for an invite code.
