An introduction to beathunter.net: The search engine for vinyl records (and CDs)

Victor
beathunter
Published in
3 min readApr 8, 2018
Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash

Hello record collectors, crate diggers, and music lovers in general. Have you ever experienced the frustration of not being able to find that one record you need after spending a few hours — or even days — digging for it?

Sure, this quest for the hidden gems is fun, but at some point it can become very time consuming and inefficient, especially when your first go-to options — local record stores , online stores or the almighty Discogs — happen to not have this record in stock.

Then you continue your search in some other record stores, and as a last resource, you can always try browsing among several hundreds of Google search results, most of them containing irrelevant information.

Could this be you? Then you are lucky, beathunter.net is a blazingly fast search engine that will help you find vinyl records (and CDs) in the best online stores and marketplaces in Europe.

Now let me tell you why you should give beathunter.net a try:

  • The results returned by the search algorithm of beathunter.net are more accurate and relevant than most of the record stores we integrate. In other words, with beathunter.net you will find more records and find them faster.
  • You’ll save time and — even though that’s not the main value that beathunter.net offers — you may also save money. We found price differences for new records of up to 5€ between some stores.
  • beathunter.net provides a better UX compared to generic search engines such as Google. In the search results you’ll find records from different stores aggregated in a single result card.
  • Every record card shows only the relevant information and the record cover upfront. This makes easier to find what you are searching among all the search results.
Search results in beathunter.net
  • Once you find the record you are looking for, you can open the detail with one click. Besides the record info, tracklist and reviews, you will also get an overview of the releases available in every store and their prices.
  • From the record detail page, with one more click on the Select button, you’ll land in the store, where you can add the record to your cart.
Detail view of a record in beathunter.net
  • If none of the stores indexed in beathunter.net have the record in stock, you can subscribe to receive an alert as soon as the record is in stock again. That is, subscribing to a record in beathunter.net will provide you with updates from all the websites we integrate.

Thanks for reading 👋

If you haven’t yet, we encourage everybody to go to beathunter.net, and search for any record or artist you like. It won’t take you more than 5 seconds, you’ll see how fast it is.

And if you have any questions or feedback, we would love to hear from you, leave us a comment here or use the form you will find on beathunter.net.

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Victor
beathunter

Software engineer, data hacker, critical thinker. Life-long traveller and learner. Like to rediscover and reinvent myself every now and then.