3 Best Media Aggregator For Your Favorite Music, Books, and Films

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Cataloging things can be pleasurable. A repository of things we listened to, read or watch. If you’re fond of journaling, recording your media consumption is an alternative way of doing so. There’s a certain pleasure derived from experiencing things for the first time and how it changes over the years. Recording music, books, or films can also provide a sense of growth because how else do we use to measure the passage of time other than the media we consume?

3 Best Media Aggregator For Your Favorite Music, Books, and Films

LastFM

LastFM is an online music database that lets you track the songs that you’ve listened to over the years. With this app, you will get access to statistics on your listening habits. It’s like a Spotify Wrapped Up except accessible anytime. It has Most Played Artists, Most Played Tracks, and Most Played Albums which lets you know who or what you’ve been listening to across various time frames.

LastFM records are known as scrobbles. Once you finished listening to a song (or any other media), it will count as one scrobble in your LastFM account. It functions on your regular music app or subscription-based apps such as Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Music. To connect your account, just head over to Track My Music and select the platform you want to connect to LastFM.

Goodreads

Goodreads is a book catalog that functions also as a social app. It lets you track books according to your preferences. There are mainly three sections for these: want to read, reading, and read. You can also customize your libraries depending on genres such as poetry, fiction, memoirs, essays, etc.

Goodreads also functions as a diary of sorts where you can update your reading status as you are reading your book. You can also add friends who can see your updates making it a form of social media as well. When viewing a book, reviews can also be helpful in determining the content of the book in case you are interested in purchasing one but wary of the content. Goodreads makes a great catalog too in case you have a physical library in the house!

Letterboxd

Letterboxd is a popular platform for film enthusiasts or cinephiles. The Goodreads of cinema. Using the “Log” button, users can record a movie they watched and indicate the time when they watched it. Aside from this, users can also leave reviews and ratings which allows users to form communities based on mutual appreciation of a particular work.

Under your account name, you will see a Diary option. By clicking that, you will gain access to a chronological order of films you’ve watched and logged which makes for a good reminiscing and perhaps a rewatch of an old film and other media you loved but somewhat forgotten over the years.