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Only albums you can play there will surface — choose none to see everything.
Released on this day in history
Choose the services you use
Only albums you can play there will surface — choose none to see everything.
Drag your services to set which plays first.
Also include records with no confirmed way to listen yet — the full set released on this day, not just the listenable ones.
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Or a span of years
Records you skipped today — bring any back to look again. This pile clears tomorrow; nothing here is saved.
Genres come straight from Discogs' own classification, not ours — including combined categories like “Folk, World, & Country”, which Discogs treats as a single genre.
This lives only in this browser — not synced or backed up.
I made Music Forest because I want my relationship with music to be more active and exploratory without being tracked and algorithmically recommended.
I want to feel like a kid digging around in the dirt, noticing what exists and forming my own opinions of it without anyone telling me how to feel or what to look for. The origins of this project started with notions of mycelial networks, fairies, and forest metaphors that would help guide the vision of this project.
A lot of that whimsy has since been dropped (like the little magical fairy who would help you through the tutorial); however, the underpinnings of those ecosystems remain in this project. Explore connections and walk around in the forest of music, examining each object at a time, jotting down your observations in your notebook.
Every day I open up Music Forest and discover artists I probably would have never discovered. Sometimes I like them, sometimes I just listen to a few songs and move on to the next album. My listening practice has slowed down in a beautiful way.
There are no ranking systems, recommendations, curated lists, etc. Just ears.
I like to use the notebook as a way to keep track of what I've listened to. There is a lot of power in the notebook for me.
My relationship with listening has positively changed as a result of this project and I hope it has a similar effect for you.
- Clancy
Every album in the catalogue is tagged with its original release month and day. Music Forest gathers every record whose release date lands on today's month and day — any year — and shows them one at a time.
The order is a genre-balanced deal: records are grouped by a coarse genre and the deck takes one genre per round, so the first records span genres instead of leading with a run of the most common one. Within that, placement is random. Genre is the only thing balanced — to keep the day varied — and there's no weighting by popularity, era, label, or anything about you; nothing about you is stored or read to build the day. Only one canonical version of each album is counted, so reissues and duplicate pressings can't crowd the day or show up twice.
Prefer a narrower day? By genre and By year show only what you choose — and the filtered set still runs through the same balanced deal, so "Jazz + Folk" interleaves rather than all-jazz-then-folk.
Discogs — one of two catalog sources: releases, dates, labels and editions, from its CC0 community data.
MusicBrainz — the other catalog source, global and an equal peer (nearly half the pickable pool comes from it), and where many albums' tracklists, genres and cover art come from.
Deezer — the availability check: an album only counts as listenable once it's been confirmed streamable there.
Apple Music / iTunes & the Cover Art Archive — cover art, plus exact Apple album links.
Spotify & YouTube Music — exact album links from each service's own catalog lookup (Spotify's cached only briefly, per its terms).
Bandcamp — exact album links drawn straight from MusicBrainz's url-relations, so a Bandcamp album is confirmed by construction — no lookup needed.
Odesli — fans a confirmed album out to exact links on further services (TIDAL, Amazon Music, Pandora and more).
The house rule: a link or badge only appears when the exact album was confirmed on that service. An album that hasn't been checked yet is unknown — never "unavailable."
The catalog is read-only and offline-first: it lives on the server, and the app itself works without a connection once loaded.
How Music Forest works ↗Type an artist or an album. If it’s on file, it opens ready to hold what you remember.
Want to tag a specific song?
The credits as the sleeve lists them. A linked name is a door — follow anyone outward.
Albums we have on file, newest first. Open one to wander its own threads.
Records on this label, newest first. Open one to wander its own threads.
Records where this person appears in the credits, newest first — the role quoted as each sleeve credited it. Open one to wander its own threads.
The more detail the better.
The doors you pulled this session. Tap any to go back.
Everywhere you've been this session. Tap to walk back.