What is Rate Your Music?
Rate Your Music (RYM) is an online music cataloging and rating platform created in 2000. It allows users to catalog, rate, and review albums, EPs, singles, videos, and other music releases. RYM has a database of over 1 million artists and 8 million releases, making it one of the largest crowdsourced databases for album info and ratings.
Some key features of Rate Your Music include:
- Users can add releases to their collection and rate/review them on a scale of 1 to 5 stars
- RYM calculates overall ratings for each release based on user ratings and number of ratings
- Users can create custom charts and lists based on genres, decades, countries, etc.
- The site has dedicated pages for each artist and release with info, user reviews, and recommendations
- Users can track artists to get notifications about new releases
- There are active forums for discussing music and asking recommendations
Overall, RYM aims to be a comprehensive catalog of music releases with ratings and reviews contributed by its large user base. The goal is to help users discover, catalog, discuss and rate albums from all genres and decades.
Last.fm, Discogs, AllMusic, Listnd, Album of The Year, streamsquid, MovieTracker, ratehouse, lib.reviews, Worldcat, MusicHarbor, cineminds are some alternatives to Rate Your Music.