The Letterboxd for Music
Rate songs, write reviews, annotate lyrics, keep a listening diary.
If you have ever finished an album and wished for somewhere to put your thoughts the way Letterboxd holds your thoughts on films — that is what Trackboxd is. It is the Letterboxd for music, built around the track rather than the album.
You search for a song, give it a rating out of five, and write what you actually think. It goes into your diary, appears on your profile, and shows up in the feeds of people who follow you.
Why tracks and not albums
Most music sites are album-first. That works for records you sit down with front to back, but it is a poor fit for how a lot of listening works now. A great album can carry a song you skip every time; a mediocre record can carry the one song you have played four hundred times.
Trackboxd rates the track. Albums still have their own pages with a track-by-track breakdown, but the rating, the review, and the annotation all live at the level of the individual song.
What you can do on Trackboxd
- — Rate any track out of five stars
- — Write a review and have it appear on the track's page
- — Annotate a specific timestamp or lyric, so your note is attached to the exact moment it is about
- — Keep a listening diary of what you played and when
- — Follow other listeners and read their reviews as they post
- — Build a public profile that shows your taste rather than describing it
Annotation is the part nothing else does
Rating and reviewing are table stakes. The thing Trackboxd has that comparable sites do not is inline annotation at the track level. You can mark the 43-second mark where the bass drops, or the line in the second verse that means something different once you know what the record is about, and leave your reading of it there for anyone who opens the song.
Lyrics sites annotate meaning. Review sites hold opinions. Trackboxd puts both on the same page, attached to the same song.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a Letterboxd for music?
- Yes — Trackboxd. It applies the Letterboxd model to music: you rate a track out of five stars, write a review in your own words, log the date you listened, and build a public profile that shows your taste over time. The difference is the unit. Letterboxd is built around films; Trackboxd is built around individual tracks rather than whole albums.
- How is Trackboxd different from Letterboxd?
- The structure is the same — rate, review, log, follow — but Trackboxd adds timestamped annotations. You can attach a comment to a specific moment in a song, like the point where the bridge changes or the lyric in the second verse. Films do not really need that; songs do.
- Is Trackboxd free?
- Yes. Creating an account, rating tracks, writing reviews, annotating songs, and following other listeners are all free.
- Does Trackboxd work with Spotify?
- Trackboxd uses Spotify's catalogue to search and identify tracks, so you can find effectively any song and log it. Each track page also links out to the song on Spotify.
- How is it different from Last.fm?
- Last.fm is built on scrobbling — it automatically records what you play and turns it into listening statistics. Trackboxd is built on writing. It cares about what you thought of a track, not just how many times it went past your ears.
Compare Trackboxd with other music tracking sites on the alternatives page, or read more about the project on the about page.
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Trackboxd is free to use. Search any track, give it a rating, and write the first thing you actually think about it.
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