Playlist Forge vs Rotation

Playlist Forge is where you build playlists on Apple Music and share them with a community that actually listens. Pick any artist and Playlist Forge builds a playlist around them — just their songs, or a mix that trees out through similar artists. Lean toward the hits or dig for deep cuts, set the length and a release-year range, preview every track, then save it straight to your Apple Music library. BUILD Start from any artist. Choose "just this artist" or "artist + similar," pick Hits or Deep cuts, set the length and years, preview the songs, and save to your library in a tap. DISCOVER Browse playlists made by real people, add any of them to your library instantly, and follow the curators whose taste you trust. Likes, adds, and comments help the good stuff rise, and you can search across every playlist and person. MAKE IT TOGETHER Start a community playlist and let others add songs. Turn on song voting so the crowd thumbs each track up or down for fit. CHALLENGES Host your own themed challenge or enter someone else's, then let the community vote for a winner. Several can run at once, so there's always something to jump into. BOOST Give a playlist you're proud of a spotlight — pin it to the top of Discover for a day so everyone finds it. STAY IN THE LOOP Get notified when someone follows you, when your playlist hits a milestone, or when a new challenge drops. Playlist Forge is your library, your taste, together with everyone else's. Requires an Apple Music subscription to build and save playlists. Sign in with Apple to post, comment, follow, and vote. Boost and Host a Challenge are optional one-time in-app purchases. Your data is yours — delete your account and everything in it any time from your profile. Questions? 14nicholas.martin@gmail.com

Rotation shows you what you actually listen to — from your own music server, without anyone else counting along. It connects to Rotation on your server, next to your Navidrome library. Navidrome already records every play; Rotation is the part that reads those numbers back to you. TOP LISTS OVER ANY PERIOD Artists, tracks, albums and genres for the last 7, 30 or 90 days, this year, or all time — each with its rank, its plays and the hours behind them. EVERY ARTIST HAS A PAGE Open anything to see its own history, where it stands in the period, and what else belongs to it. You can play a 30-second preview from your own library. WHEN YOU LISTEN A timeline of your plays, a clock of your day, and a weekday-by-hour heatmap. PLAYLISTS THAT KEEP THEMSELVES Turn any top list into a real playlist in your library — 25, 50 or 100 tracks — refreshed daily, so every app on your network gets it. FRIENDS ON THE SAME SERVER Add other users of your server and see what they have on rotation, and which artists you have in common. MADE TO LOOK LIKE YOURS Six accent colours, light and dark, English and German — and the home screen icon follows the colour you pick. WHAT YOU NEED A Rotation server (free and open source, MIT licensed) reachable from your device, and a Navidrome account on it. Rotation has no account system of its own and no cloud: the app talks to your server and to nothing else. NO SERVER YET? Tap "Try the demo" on the sign-in screen. An invented listening year, recap included, entirely on the device.