February 22, 2026
When AI says “great taste, my friend”…
Music Discovery
Vinyl lovers roast “sweet talk” AI as music nerds demand real taste, not fake compliments
TLDR: A shiny new AI vinyl recommender promises mood-based picks, themed crates, and genre guides, but music nerds are dragging it for fake-flattering messages and clumsy genre guesses. Commenters demand deeper taste, live sets, and even music-theory analysis, turning a chill discovery app into a full-on culture war over what “good taste” really is.
A new vinyl discovery site promises to find your next favourite record, build cute 5‑album “crates,” and even run themed challenges like “Albums That Changed Your Life.” On paper it’s music-nerd heaven: AI mood-based picks, genre guides from ambient to Afrobeat, and import tools for your existing record collection. But the community reaction? Absolutely not in a cuddly mood.
davidee leads the charge, saying the tool feels like yet another AI behind “some hidden prompt,” and torches its tone for spewing lines like “Ah, great taste my friend” on repeat. The vibe, according to him, is less record shop clerk and more clingy life coach, and the crowd is cackling in agreement. Others slam the actual recommendations: solomonb argues that real music heads make wild, unexpected leaps, while this AI just connects obvious dots and still misses the mark.
Then the purists arrive. cyberrock complains that everything is obsessed with albums, calling them a “fleeting moment” in music history and dragging the site for ignoring live shows, DJ sets, game soundtracks, and YouTube rabbit holes. WarOnPrivacy backs it up with brutal examples of genre misfires, while another commenter dreams of a nerdy, music-theory-based recommender that analyzes keys and chords instead of vibes and emojis. The result is a full-on comment-section festival: cool idea, fun challenges… but until the AI stops buttering people up and starts actually understanding their taste, the crowd’s not buying the hype.
Key Points
- •The service uses AI to recommend records based on user-described moods, vibes, or favorite artists, focusing on music worth owning on vinyl.
- •Users can create and share themed 5-record collections called crates, with a community collections section and time-limited themed challenges.
- •Existing vinyl collectors can import their Discogs libraries to receive personalized recommendations informed by their current collections.
- •The platform offers curated genre guides as starting points into styles such as ambient, spiritual jazz, post-rock, krautrock & electronics, dream pop & shoegaze, dub, folk, experimental, and Afrobeat & Tropicália.
- •Listening guides present multi-album journeys (e.g., from Eno to Autechre, Coltrane to Kamasi, Motorik to Techno), alongside features for price tracking and a non-algorithmic weekly email of staff picks.