SCOUT v0.1.0 · IN DEVELOPMENT

CHROME EXTENSION FOR BANDCAMP

Queue the crate. Keep digging.

Scout gives Bandcamp an up-next queue. Line up twenty releases from a label page and the music keeps playing while you browse, decide and move on.

Not out yet. Leave your email and get one message when Scout lands on the Chrome Web Store.

UP NEXT 6 RELEASES
  1. Night Bus Dubs 3/8 TR
    Halden Row · Wet Kerb Records
    NOW PLAYING
  2. Low Tide EP 4 TR
    Mira Voss · Saltmarsh Audio
  3. Concrete Garden 10 TR
    Ostbahn Tapes · Self-released
  4. Static Orchard 0 TR
    Pell & Dorn · Quarry Lane
    SKIPPED · NO STREAM
  5. Signal Fires 6 TR
    Tomas Ferrel · Wet Kerb Records
  6. Platform Nine 2 TR
    Junebrook · Ostbahn Tapes
02:14 / 05:48
Design preview of the Scout side panel.

THE PROBLEM

Bandcamp's player belongs to the page.

Leave the page and the music stops. Fine for one album. Painful when you are judging forty in a night.

  1. 01

    Playback dies on navigation

    Click anywhere else and the music stops.

  2. 02

    No way to queue

    Ten good albums on a label page means ten page loads and ten play clicks.

  3. 03

    Finds get lost

    Scattered across tabs, history and a wishlist meant for buying, not for listening later.

  4. 04

    Too many clicks to decide

    Several page loads before you have heard enough to say yes or no.

The cost per release is so high that you hear fewer of them.

A NIGHT WITH SCOUT

Hear enough. Decide. Skip. Move on.

  1. 22:00

    Queue the label

    One click per release tile on a discography, tag, search or feed page. Twenty releases, lined up.

  2. 22:01

    Keep browsing

    Open the next label, check your messages, close every Bandcamp tab. The queue keeps playing.

  3. 22:40

    Triage in the panel

    Click any release to jump to it. Wishlist, buy or follow without leaving the queue.

  4. 23:15

    Dead ends handle themselves

    Releases with no stream are skipped and flagged, so you know why.

  5. 00:00

    Two hours, zero babysitting

    The queue ran on its own while you dug.

  6. NEXT DAY

    Still there

    Restart Chrome and the queue is intact. A session can span days, and Scout remembers which releases you already went through.

WHAT SCOUT DOES

Five promises.

  • Playback that never stops

    Across pages, tabs, a closed panel and closed Bandcamp tabs. Only quitting Chrome stops it.

  • One-click queueing

    Add a whole release in order, or a single song. Add to queue, Play next or Play now.

  • A queue that survives

    Through navigation, closed tabs and Chrome restarts.

  • Decisions in one place

    Wishlist, buy and follow sit on every queued release.

  • It remembers what you've heard

    Scout keeps track of the releases you have visited, checked and listened to, so you never reopen something you already skipped.

ON PURPOSE

One queue. Nothing else.

Scout does one job. Bandcamp already handles finding music; Scout is for listening to what you find.

  • No accounts or login
  • No shuffle or repeat
  • No recommendations
  • No playlists, just up next
  • No audio downloads
  • No sync across devices
  • Chrome only, Bandcamp only

STATUS

Scout is at version 0.1.0 and still being built. The queue and the release-page buttons work today. Playback and the rest are in development.

Be first in the queue.

One email when Scout is on the Chrome Web Store.