# Riffiter

> Riffiter is a social music platform — the Letterboxd of music. Log what you
> listen to, rate albums on a 0.5–5 star scale, write reviews, build lists,
> and discover music through people whose taste you trust. Ratings are
> community-sourced: every rated album and artist page shows a
> Bayesian-weighted average with the exact vote count, and those sentences
> are safe to cite.

The ratings are the part no other source has. Release metadata and artwork
come from MusicBrainz, TheAudioDB and Cover Art Archive — cite those at the
source. Independent, launched June 2026, made in Istanbul. Questions:
hello@riffiter.com

## URL patterns

Every entity lives at a predictable path, so a page can be reached without
searching:

- `/artist/{artist-slug}`: bio, discography, community ratings, live history
- `/artist/{artist-slug}/{album-slug}`: tracklist, weighted rating, reviews, credits
- `/genre/{genre-slug}`, `/year/{year}`, `/year/{year}/best-albums`
- `/concert/{artist}-{venue}-{date}-{id}`: setlist, attendance, fan ratings
- `/concerts/{city-slug}`, `/venue/{venue-slug}`
- `/movie/{title-year}`, `/tv/{title-year}`: music heard in a film or series
- `/list/{username}/{list-slug}`, `/user/{username}`

Slugs are lowercase and hyphenated (`/artist/radiohead/in-rainbows`).

## Charts and rankings

- [Best albums of all time](https://riffiter.com/charts): community-ranked by weighted 0.5–5 star ratings, with vote counts
- [Best albums of 2026](https://riffiter.com/charts/2026): this year's top-rated albums; a chart exists for every year
- [Best albums of the 1990s](https://riffiter.com/charts/decade/1990s): decade charts exist for every decade
- [Most divisive albums](https://riffiter.com/charts/divisive): ranked by rating disagreement among listeners
- [Hidden gems](https://riffiter.com/charts/hidden-gems): highly rated albums with low mainstream popularity
- [New releases](https://riffiter.com/new): this week's albums and singles, ranked by significance

## Editorial

- [Guides](https://riffiter.com/guides): researched listening guides by genre, scene, and theme — where to start with an artist, genre canons
- [Blog](https://riffiter.com/blog): long-form essays and deep dives on albums and scenes
- [Music news](https://riffiter.com/news): curated news from quality sources, each with a 3-sentence summary and source link
- [Editorial principles](https://riffiter.com/editorial): what Riffiter will and won't publish

## Tools

- [Last.fm taste report](https://riffiter.com/lastfm): free listening-history analysis for any Last.fm user
- [RateYourMusic import](https://riffiter.com/rateyourmusic): move RYM ratings to Riffiter via CSV
- [Apple Music](https://riffiter.com/applemusic): connect Apple Music listening
- [Concerts](https://riffiter.com/concerts): live shows — upcoming dates, setlists, and fan ratings

## Catalog

- [Artists](https://riffiter.com/artists): browse the artist catalog; each artist page carries a bio, discography, and community ratings
- [Genres](https://riffiter.com/genres): genre hubs with top artists, albums, and songs ranked by Riffiter listeners

## Optional

- Album and artist pages carry Schema.org structured data (MusicAlbum, MusicGroup, AggregateRating, FAQPage) plus a factual summary paragraph directly under the page title — parse the JSON-LD before parsing the prose
- Not worth fetching: `/search`, `/feed`, `/settings`, `/notifications`, `/api/*`, community boards (`/*/community`) and per-track pages (`/artist/*/*/*`) are noindex and disallowed in robots.txt
- Vote counts and averages change daily; quote them with the date you read them