That’s why engineer Lucas Hrabovsky created Find You Some Vinyl, a search engine for finding records, at Music Hack Day in New York City.
“I've been building up my vinyl collection recently, and I was tired of having to search a wide range of different sites every time I was curious looking into an album, new or old,” Hrabovsky says. “As massive as they are, services like Google Shopping don't generally link to the online vinyl stores that I actually use. And while Amazon has a pretty extensive vinyl catalogue, I'd much rather support smaller sites like Boomkat and Insound because I think what they do for music is really important.”
Remember Musikki, the search engine that centers entirely around findin g bands? Well, Find You Some Vinyl operates by the same principle. Say you wanted the new Radiohead album on vinyl — all you have to do is search “Radiohead, The King of Limbs,” and the service will hypothetically tell what record stores carry that disc, and provide a direct link to the “Buy” page.
Right now, this hack is not fully built out — since it was constructed in a weekend — and only contains results from Amazon, Insound, Interpunk and Boomkat. Still, we can imagine it becoming useful once Hrabovsky adds more results and tightens up the UI a bit.
“I'm definitely very interested in finding other sites to fold in,” Hrabovsky says. “I've worked on fixing most of the bugs and adding a few new features.”
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