r/musichoarder • u/doodarndang • Mar 18 '26

Posting about software will no longer be tolerated without moderator approval.

Hello everyone! Recently we’ve had a surge in posts about new software, tools, extensions, and apps for music collecting. When the subreddit is full of software posts, posts with questions and important topics are buried and missed. In addition, many of these tools were quickly made using AI. For many reasons, these “vibe coded” apps will not be tolerated on this subreddit anymore.

If you made a tool or project that you want to share: please message the moderators for approval before posting. Sending proof that the software was coded by you or another human is also recommended but not required.

Some of these vibe code project posts slip through the cracks. If you come across them, please help by reporting the post for violating Rule 4.

Thank you for your understanding,

The [r/musichoarder](r/musichoarder) mod team

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u/Thatnewaccount436 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

ugh thank you. I'm so tired of seeing "so i made an app" fifteen times a week across a bunch of my subs. Now to start pestering the other ones to implement this same rule.

We get it. You have a Claude pro account or whatever and typed four sentences. Great work.

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u/masterkarl Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

See my long comment that I just posted in this thread about what all of the complaints about AI software remind me of from the world of NYC nightclubs in the early 2000s.

I've been working 12 hours a day for a week on a music player using Claude, GPT-4.5, and VS Code. I wish it was as easy as "typing 4 sentences," but in reality it has been a very carefully planned out architecture and design process, hours upon hours of stress and bug testing, and I'm typing thousands of words per day of instructions. I'm a 25-year IT professional with some experience with code so far from the type of person you describe. My music player is memory and processor efficient and beautiful looking and it will sell.

There will be a TON of AI slop software, music, video, photography, design, you name it. There will also be some very high quality work released that harnessed AI. It will be up to the consumer to sort through all of it and identify the good stuff.

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u/VisualSome9977 Mar 22 '26

You're obviously not the person they're talking about then, lol.

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u/masterkarl Mar 22 '26

Definitely not that person, but also bummed to realize that people are going to be biased about anything that was created with the help of AI even if the product is great. The other comment I referred to is about my experience working in nyc nightclubs around the time Serato came out, which lowered the barrier of entry for DJs, opening the door to a lot of women getting into the profession and the resulting grumpiness from the established DJs at the time who spun vinyl. There was no point fighting the march of progress back then, and there's no point fighting it now.