A Vinyl Search Engine to Keep Your Eye On

As reported by Mashable:

Not everyone has an awesome neighborhood record store run by an obsessive, borderline recluse who can suggest a disc based on the way you walk and your choice of drink.

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 finding 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.”