Taste profile
See your taste in one place
Your profile counts your verdicts across all eight, lists the tracks you’ve marked Loved, and shows the tags and moods you use most.
Illustrative example, not real data
Private beta
Apple Music · Spotify import
Your taste belongs to you
Your music app remembers what you played. Riffek helps you remember why it mattered.
Build a personal record of the songs you love, the sounds you avoid and everything in between, separate from the service you use to listen.
Private beta. We’ll email you when an invitation is available.
Bring in music you know
Connect Apple Music, or import from Spotify once.
Record how you feel
Eight verdicts, plus optional tags and notes.
See your taste
A profile and a genre map built from your verdicts.
Find something new
Picks chosen from what you’ve told Riffek.
What it is
Your taste, kept apart from where you listen
Streaming apps remember what you played. Riffek keeps what you thought about it: what you love, what you avoid, what you’ve worn out, and why. Keep listening in your usual music app. Riffek is where you make sense of your taste.
Not a streaming service
Riffek has no music library of its own. It uses your Apple Music account for previews and playback while you review tracks.
Not a playlist mover
Transfer tools move songs. Riffek records what you think of them. It can send a playlist to Apple Music, and Spotify is a one-time import, not a sync.
A record of why
Each verdict can carry tags, a mood and a note, so the record shows not just what you like but why.
How it works
From your library to your taste
Start with music you know. Review a few tracks. See what your choices reveal, and find something new.
Start with music you know
Connect Apple Music. If you use Spotify, you can import your saved tracks and playlists once, as a snapshot. Riffek doesn’t stay connected to Spotify.
Apple Music, connectedSpotify, one-time importReview a few tracks
Riffek queues a short set of tracks from your library. Choose one of eight verdicts for each, then add tags, a mood or a note if you want to.
See your taste, find something new
Your verdicts build a taste profile and a genre map. Discovery then suggests tracks to review, shaped by what you’ve said.
Wildcard
Eight verdicts
More honest than a thumbs up
A thumbs-down can’t say ‘still love it, just not today’. Riffek’s eight verdicts can. ‘Needs a rest’ means you still like a track and want a break from it: it isn’t neutral, and it isn’t disliked. Every verdict has a shape as well as a color.
- Loved
The strongest yes, a staple.
- Liked
A clear yes, a step below Loved.
- StretchNew
Outside my usual, and it pulled me in.
- Needs a rest
Still a yes, just heard too often lately.
- Neutral
‘Neutral’ is a fine answer.
- Soft passNew
Not for me, no strong feelings.
- Disliked
A clear no.
- Ruled out
Never recommend this again.
Features
What you can do in the beta
These are in the app now. The numbers, tracks and maps in the examples below are illustrative, not real listening data.
Discover
Picks shaped by your verdicts
Ask for a set of tracks to review, chosen from your verdicts and tags. Steer toward a genre, a sound or a mood, or ask for a wildcard that reaches past your usual. Where it can, Riffek shows the artist a pick sits near. Written reasons for each pick are coming.
Illustrative example, not real data
Genre map
Your taste on a map of 6,000+ genres
See which genres your verdicts touch and which regions you haven’t explored, plotted from your own reviews on a map of more than 6,000 genres from Every Noise.
Playlists
Build playlists, send them to Apple Music
Make smart playlists from an artist or track you like, from tracks you’ve rated Liked or higher with a tag you choose, or from genres your profile knows least about. Then send them to your Apple Music library.
Late-night drive24 tracks
18 added · 4 already there · 2 not in Apple’s catalog
Apple only allows adding songs, so Riffek can’t remove or reorder them there.
Illustrative example, not real data
Privacy
Plain answers about your data
Your verdicts, tags and notes are stored without your name on them. One encrypted record links them to your account. Here is what that protects, and what it doesn’t.
Limits, stated plainly
- Verdicts, tags and notes are not end-to-end encrypted. They are stored without a name or account on them.
- Without a passphrase, the server holds the key to the encrypted link between you and that content.
- Spotify is a one-time snapshot, not a live connection.
- Apple only allows adding songs to a playlist, so Riffek can’t remove or reorder them there.
- Stored without your nameEach verdict, tag and note is a row with no name or account on it. One encrypted record links those rows to you, and the database only lets your account read its own.
- Optional passphraseSet one and that link is locked with a key only you hold. We can’t unlock it without your passphrase, and we can’t recover it if you lose it.
- Credentials are kept separateYour Apple Music access is stored encrypted, for your account only. Riffek doesn’t keep your Spotify credentials or tokens.
- Tag names can be sharedTags you create join a shared list, with no name attached. Seeing other people’s tags is a setting, and it is off by default.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Short answers about what Riffek is and isn’t.
Is Riffek a streaming service?
No. Riffek has no music library of its own. Keep listening in Apple Music or wherever you like. Riffek uses your Apple Music account for previews and playback while you review tracks: previews work without a subscription, and full tracks need one.
Which services does it work with?
Apple Music has full function today. Spotify is limited: you can import your saved tracks and playlists into Riffek once, nothing goes back to Spotify, and Riffek doesn’t stay connected afterwards. The import needs a free Spotify developer app. You can still build a taste profile from it, but there isn’t a streamlined way to yet. Other services are in planning.
Does it change my Apple Music library?
Only when you send a playlist. Riffek adds songs to a playlist in your library. It can’t remove or reorder them afterwards, and some tracks may already be there or be missing from Apple’s catalog. Riffek shows you which.
What happens to my data?
Your verdicts, tags and notes are stored without your name, linked to your account by one encrypted record. They are not end-to-end encrypted. The Privacy section above has the details and the limits.
Does it cost anything?
We haven’t announced pricing. Joining the waitlist doesn’t commit you to anything.
When will I get an invitation?
We’ll email you when an invitation is available. We haven’t set a date.
Beta waitlist
Get on
the list
Riffek is in private beta. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when an invitation is available. Apple Music has full function today. Spotify is limited to a one-time import.
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