Fresh Releases as a playlist

Hello,

Seeing as there is a Fresh releases section on MusicBrainz, that allows someone to check out new releases that, within the For You section, might be of interest to a user; And seeing as ListenBrainz / Troi can already generate weekly / daily playlists for users. Would it be possible to offer new releases as a playlist? Perhaps by compiling Fresh Releases in a playlist format.

One benefit of this would be an easy, simple, ready-to-go playlist with new releases a user could check out, rather than browsing through what’s new manually. Certain streaming platforms might already have something like this, but having such a feature within ListenBrainz could allow for something that is platform-agnostic, not depending on a specific platform or service.

Seeing as compiling new releases of interest is already a feature, and so is creating playlists, I reckon this could be done, and could be an interesting feature to have. Especially seeing as ListenBrainz and MusicBrainz have data that goes beyond what a specific platform offers, potentially offering platform-agnostic recommendations using platform-agnostic data (e.g. if a user tracks several sources of listens, which one specific service would not know of). Essentially, the benefits of Fresh Releases packaged as a simple playlist, similar in format to the daily / weekly playlists.

Thank you for your time!

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I’ve been itching to write exactly this, but when I started implementing it, I realized that I needed another dataset/lookup tool in place before I could do a good job with it.

I have been working on this other project (a new MBID mapper) for months now and it will take a least a couple more months before that is finished. After that, I will create the Fresh Releases playlist – I promise!

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