Tools & Helpful Things 🔧

A collection of links to websites with useful tools, which may come in handy for artists, curators or listeners at some point!
You'll find technical help sites, metadata tools, info pages and things like that, which can make your life easier by solving very specific tasks.
🚩 I'm not affiliated with any of the external pages and don't take any responsibility for them. I check the links carefully, but content may change.
🚩 The tools listed here are free to use. Some websites may offer a premium model, but exclusively paid services won't get added to this page.
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⌚⏳ Scedule & Date Tools

🗺 World Time Zones Map
💡 This map is an important tool for international artists, radio DJs, podcasters and everybody, who wants to reach people all around the world.
◽ Knowing which time zone you're in - and which time zones everybody else is in - makes sceduling times and dates internationally a lot easier.
◽ This is the beautiful World Time Zones Map on Wikipedia. It can help you to understand time zones and their strange shapes - and it looks great!
🔗 World Time Zones Map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/World_Time_Zones_Map.png

⏰ Is it Bandcamp Friday?
💡 Everybody loves Bandcamp Friday, so the big question is: "Is it Bandcamp Friday?"
◽ On Bandcamp Fridays, all artists get more of their share for sales made on Bandcamp during these 24 hours, so it's the best day to support artists.
◽ This is the official "Is it Bandcamp Friday?" timer, which shows you the exact time until the next Bandcamp Fridays starts and how long it still runs.
🔗 Is it Bandcamp Friday?: https://isitbandcampfriday.com

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🔎📈 Analyzing & Discovery Tools

📊 Discover new music, playlists and similar artists with lots of different tools by Chosic
💡 If you want to dig deeper into music similar to yours or the artists you like, analyze playlists based on metadata, discover obscure music, find tracks based on BPM, key, theme, lyrics, genre or simply new titles by an artist, there's an array of tools on this page.
◽ Some of these tools are helpful to curate better playlists or to find out if a playlist is a good match for your music.
◽ You can also create new playlists based on similar titles or use the different randomisation tools to find completely new music.
🚩 The page doesn't find all playlists an artist is on, but it apparently finds some which others don't, for example the "Artist Radio" playlists.
🔗 Chosic.com: https://www.chosic.com
🔗 Spotify Playlist Analyzer: https://www.chosic.com/spotify-playlist-analyzer

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📱📶 Social Media Tools

🔝 Top 100 HashTags on Instagram
💡 If you want to find the best hashtags for you next post, this page will show you a ranking and the total numbers for every hashtag.
◽ You can search for specific hashtags here and also get similar ones on display, so you can better tailor them to your individual posts.
◽ The page also provides you with random hashtags and you can analyse and convert texts to the fitting hashtags as well.
🔗 Top 100 HashTags on Instagram: https://top-hashtags.com/instagram/

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🎵📋 Release Management Tools

💿 ISRC Finder / UPC Finder
💡 Here you can look up the GTIN / EAN / UPC (Universal Product Code) of an album or the ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) of a track within seconds, by simply copy & pasting a link to the release or track on Spotify into the search field.
◽ Usually you'll find the codes on your distributor's page, but if you release via a label and don't have access to it, this page saves everyone's time.
◽ If you don't know what a UPC or ISRC is, there's some info about it as well.
🔗 ISRC Finder: https://www.isrcfinder.com
🔗 UPC Finder: https://www.isrcfinder.com/upc-finder/

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