About This Website
This website is a collaborative music database, focusing primarily - but not exclusively - on progressive music. We are completely non-commercial, there are no membership subscription fees and no ads. Anyone can create an account and add to the database, which of course means adding artists, releases and tracks, but also to rate, tag and comment on the music.
What can I do here?
The most basic service we provide is the music database, which you can browse to find new music to listen to. It contains more than 20,000 artists and 50,000 releases. Many of the releases are rated and tagged, and most are linked to services that allow you to listen to the music, such as Spotify and Bandcamp.
If you decide to create a (free) account, you can rate, tag and review the music yourself. You can add missing artists and releases. Through the tags you assign you, together with all the other users, determine the genre and "progressiveness" status of the music.
One big problem of people who listen to a lot of music is that it becomes difficult to keep track of what you listened to. We have a workflow in place which helps with that.
How Do I Join?
Of course participation is 100% free. You simply fill out the registration form - all that's required is for you to pick an unique user name and enter a valid email address. We require email activation to prevent abuse, and to make sure that when you forget your password you can recover the account. Of course we will not share your email address with any third parties.
The Rating System
Learn more about how we rate and tag things on the rating system page.
Can I Add Anything I Like?
The basic rule is: Anything which was released as an album (CD/Vinyl/MP3/etc) or music video (VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray) can be added. Classical music is a bit of a problem because in the structure of the database you can't yet enter composer information. So right now the focus is on any style of music except classical, but we might change that in the future.
What is the Difference Between Progressive and Prog by Style?
In the past we were using just one tag called "Progressive". At some point we decided that a bit more flexibility is needed. We split it into two tags: "Progressive", which reflects the true "progressiveness" of the music, and "Prog by Style", which is more about style/genre. We are currently experimenting with how to visualize this distinction. In most tag badges it will not be visible at all, there we just say "Prog" to mean that something is either Progressive or Prog by Style. There simply isn't enough room to show the distinction without it getting too complicated.
