What's Turning?

What's Turning is a open source community platform for music lovers.

Here's how it works:

1. Listen to the What's Turning AOTD (Album of the Day) any way you'd like.
2. Click “Create Post” on the homepage to leave a rating and optional short review.
3. Watch your profile grow along with your music taste and knowledge!

Purpose 👨‍🎤

I'm a huge music fan.

In college, I thought it was cool to dive deep into obscure bands and find one-off songs I thought were catchy. Soon enough I realized that these songs and bands I liked weren't sticking around for long. I'd have them in my rotation for a few weeks to a few months, but after a while they didn't mean much to me anymore. That's when I realized a lot of "mainstream" music is mainstream for a good reason. And that "mainstream" goes back to the 1930s, giving me an endless amount of music that had stood the test of time.

I started broadening the communities I was a part of in the music scene and took a list of albums that seemed to impact a lot of different people. I listened to one album everyday and wrote down my thoughts. Many of these albums were not super easy to digest after the first couple tracks, but as I immersed myself deeper into the world the band was creating I felt more realness and connection and started to really enjoy the album. Other albums were just not good. As I listened to these "mainstream" albums in their entirety, I saw my understanding of good music start to grow and my taste in music broaden.

What's Turning is my attempt to bring others that same joy of broadening taste and seeing the beauty in a genre often looked down on.

Roadmap 🛣️

While the current functionality is simply a journal of your music journey, here's what's coming soon:

• An "Explore" tab
  • A user can see other posts about the AOTD, get different viewpoints and see overall trends.
• Follower functionality
  • Users can follow friends, family, and others and gain a following for themselves. The people they are following will take first priority on the "Explore" page.
• Top rated albums on each user's page, highlighting their favorite projects
• Dedicated album pages
  • When selecting a certain album, from the Explore page or the home page, a page will render to give an AI generated description of the album along with posts rating the album, sorted by the amount of followers the author has.

Contact

Send me any feedback on Twitter, would be much appreciated.