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He said it become useless except for tracking. For me it was a place for music discovery.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

No seriously, like 18 months ago I solved this exact issue in my corner of the world by simply creating a static website and putting them there on a calendar and now I'm like a microcelebrity of my own running a "brand" that every organiser knows of.

Are they not also on Resident Advisor?

I think it's possible for 3rd parties to add to Resident Advisor.

I also dislike Insta only events. I still have facebook where I follow up on some venues. But just a few websites with calanders would be coolio.

I also hate meta but unfortunately it's where many scenes live. Path of least resistance for venues, artists, to share their shows. I would disagree with the other commenter who said to "be the change". I've seen dozens of event aggregating sites and what they all lack is actual people using it. We live in Meta's hell, but everybody's there (speaking as Gen Z).

This is avoidable if you have a specific niche though. A lot of groups online and in cities give me hope. What kind of music are we talking here?

If you're interested trainspotting individual CD serial numbers, then there's nothing quite like it. But my gut feeling is that there's a lot of folks with digital music collections who don't give a hoot about that stuff, and are interested in metadata about the song they just heard (the who, the when, the instruments / genres / moods, lyrics). For this audience, there are few decent, clean metadata sources. But when you ask, people will point you to MusicBrainz or tools that use it as a source (like Picard or Beets). You have to fight tooth and nail to avoid tagging a 70s album year as "2005" because there happened to be a remaster that year. Who. Fucking. Cares what year a Remaster happened when it's a 1976 album that you don't want showing up in your "Best of 2005" smart playlists.

As for social features, nobody is ever going to use MusicBrainz. They might have used RYM or Last.FM before the site owners made them unusable or pointless.

I will! Actually I started a personal project for music discovery and exploration. It's currently a dirt simple local app with about 50k tracks (YouTube embed, track credits, genre, rating).

I was going to add Spotify metadata from that recent data dump, but it's kinda trash data (valence isn't trustworthy, wildly wrong a lot of the time).

I then stumbled on lrclib data dump, local LLM and a super two step prompt that extracts extremely high quality lyric based metadata (about the narrator, protagonist, setting, story arc, moods etc)

Anyway, even though I bitched about MusicBrainz in another comment, their JSON dumps can be coaxed into giving the sort of metadata that I wanted to get from RYM, who absolutely suck due to their crazy aggressive blocking, self sabotage and unforgivable data poisoning if you trigger their bot tripwire. Their data came from their users, but as a paying user you can't use their site to tag your music. No API, and you get banned if you try to write a music player plugin to fix the tags in your "now playing" track. I don't know what their business plan is, or who they think their audience is.

No idea, but people in that scene get killed, there's a lot of connections between some reggaeton artists and local drug lords, including being funded by them and protected by them. By insulting every rapper you can lash out against, chances are high, you will anger some very dangerous people, think of like angering a cartel boss' favorite celebrity that he built up and funds.

Hector "El Father" was very much underneath the biggest king pin across all of Puerto Rico, who kept all the different barrios / caserios at peace since he was the big chief, but after the government arrested him and those closest to him, that all changed, its kind of like how in Mexico all the cartels had a "federation" they didn't mess with each other, but they eventually lost control of "peace" amongst each other, in Puerto Rico's case, after the feds took the top guys to prison, all the different barrios / caserios not only went their own way, but it was a bloodbath of people trying to be the next in charge, so its a little more dispersed.

Not every reggaeton artist is "affiliated" this way, but a number are and can be. It all went back to a moment back in the 90s / early 2000s where they arrested rappers who lived in these neighborhoods with other drug dealers, as a result some artists fled further towards these types of people since they felt like the government was associating them all the same and arresting them the same. At least this is their view.

Wild world.

Edit:

Some rappers here in the states have similar things where they pay to be protected by gangs, or they were in specific gangs, and that gives them access to protection across the country, or specific states / regions when they tour.

The Game most recently noted he's the reason Chris Browns is "in the Bloods" in his latest album, which surprised me to hear, but googling around, apparently Chris Brown claims to be a member, even though it probably just means he pays them for protection.

As someone doing exactly this, shoutout to FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler[0] for keeping all my music databases in sync.

[0]: https://github.com/FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler

I'm not sure why we are nit-picking that but untyped doesn't mean legacy, and having fields that should be identical be called differently or missing across API routes happens to tiny startups, side projects and big corporates.

That not php fault. Maybe old ass versions of php or shot implementations. But strong typing is possible in modern php