Dead Format vs Spindle

Dead Format is a community for vinyl collectors to share what they're listening to, talk about records, connect with fellow collectors, and more! Post what you're spinning, show off your latest pickups or listening setup, take part in monthly Vinyl Challenges, join conversations in the forums, organize your collection, find record stores, and buy and sell vinyl. One of the main features of Dead Format is the Home feed, and it works more like old-school social media. There's no weird algorithm deciding what you should see. The Following feed shows you every post from everyone you follow, in order, so you can actually keep up with what they're sharing. You can also browse the Discover tab whenever you want to see more popular posts and highlights from what's being shared by the rest of the community. Every month, there's a new Vinyl Challenge with a different prompt each day. Join in whenever you want, share a record that fits the day's prompt, browse everyone else's choices, and discover some new records and collectors along the way. The forums are a place for longer conversations, questions, recommendations, polls, and anything else that doesn't really fit into a regular post. Keep track of your collection and Want List, filter your records by artist, format, and more, upload your own photos, and track how often you're playing each record. You can even scrobble your spins to Last.fm. You can also find record stores near you or browse stores in other cities, save your favorites, tag them when you post about a recent visit or pickup, and help contribute any stores that might be missing. There's a Marketplace too, built around listings with real photos of the records being sold. Buyers can make offers, see shipping costs before checkout, and pay directly through the app. Sellers can list individual records or bundles, manage offers, and purchase discounted USPS shipping labels.

The vinyl listening journal. You drop the needle. Spindle does the rest — counting hours, tracking sides, remembering what you played, and quietly building a picture of your year in records. It's built around the act of spinning a record. Not around cataloging what you own. — Log every spin — Tap once when the needle drops. Spindle keeps tracking from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island so you can flip the record without unlocking your phone. — Bring your collection — Import from Discogs in seconds, or add records by hand. Track multiple turntables, each with its own cartridge wear and needle hours. — Real stats — Hours spun. Top artists, labels, decades. Listening streaks. Records you've quietly forgotten you owned. No formulas. No spreadsheets. — A private journal — Write down what came up while the record played — thoughts, moods, memories. Stays private unless you choose to share. — Challenges — Short series of daily prompts hosted by other record heads. Each day, pick one record from your collection that answers the prompt. See what everyone else picked. React. The good ones make you walk to a record you haven't played in years. — Last.fm scrobble — Every spin scrobbles automatically. Spindle complements Last.fm — it doesn't try to replace it. Questions: support@joinspindle.com Community: joinspindle.com