This guide will show you step by step how to set up the Music Butler service so that you’re notified of new releases from your favorite bands or artists and never miss their new albums, singles and EPs again.
What is Music Butler?
Here’s how Music Butler explains their service –
MusicButler sends you a daily e-mail to let you know when musicians/bands you like release new albums (or singles, or EPs, you choose). You can add artists to follow manually, or import them in bulk from your Apple Music, Spotify, or Last.fm accounts.
You don’t need Spotify, Apple Music or Last.fm, but you can use those services to import your favourite bands. Otherwise you can just type in the names of the bands and artists you want to monitor.
Get Notified of New Releases by Your Favorite Musicians
- Head over to the Music Butler site and click the Beta Sign-up button (note: the service is currently in its beta phase). Then fill out the required into to create an account. When you’re done, click the Sign me up! button.
- Music Butler will now send you an email with a confirmation link. Go check your email and click on that link.
- Now that you’ve confirmed your account, sign in with your newly created credentials.
- At this point you can begin adding bands and artists to monitor. In this example we’ll use Spotify start with. Click the Spotify link (see screenshot below).
- On the CONNECT YOUR SPOTIFY page, click the Connect to Spotify button.
- Click the AGREE button on the Spotify agreement page.
- Back on the Music Butler page, make sure there’s a check in the Scan Entire Library (Recommended) box and then click the Confirm button.
- Music Brains will now scan your entire Spotify library and catalogue all of the artists you listen to.
- You’ll be presented with a little summary window when the sync has completed.
- Now for the fun part – click the Dashboard link at the top of the Web Butler page. A list of all the recent releases by your favorite musicians will be displayed, with links to find the release on Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon.
- If you scroll down you’ll find another section, this one is titled Upcoming Music Releases, and it includes a list of the upcoming releases by your favorite artist and the date of the release.
- While you’re browsing through the results, you may find a few bands that you don’t really want to monitor and they were included in your sync because you have one of their tracks saved on Spotify or Apple Music. To stop being notified of new releases by that band or artist, click on its name.
- Locate and click the unfollow button. Now you that band won’t be listed in the Latest Music Releases or Upcoming Music Releases sections, nor will you receive email notifications for that band/artist.
- You can also import more of your favorite artists using Last.fm. Unlike with Spotify and Apple Music, the Last.fm integration is an “import” and not a synchronized service. That means if you add more bands to your Last.fm profile, they wont’ be automatically included in your future updates and notifications. To import from Last.fm, click the Connect button and then select Last.fm from the menu.
- Enter your Last.fm user name and select a time frame and the number of artists you want to import. When you’re done, click the Fetch Profile button.
- Music Butler won’t create duplicates of the artists you’ve already added, synched or imported. If you’ve ‘unfollowed’ an artist, Music Butler even remembers not to include that artist going forward.
- If you have any questions by all means leave a comment below and ask, or check the Music Butler FAQs.
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