How to contribute

Ratings run from half a star to five, in half-star steps. They feed the community average you see on every album, track, and artist page.

1. 1Find the album or track — search by name, or browse from an artist page.
2. 2Tap the stars under "Your rating". One tap sets it; tap again to fine-tune the half star.
3. 3Done. The page's average updates and the rating joins your profile history.

NoteA rating is what you felt at the time — re-rating later is fine and never deletes your review.

Reviews live alongside your rating. A short note and a long-form essay are equally welcome — say why, not just how much.

1. 1Rate the album or track first — the review box sits with the rating form.
2. 2Write what you have to say. There's no minimum; two honest lines beat ten empty ones.
3. 3Save. Your review appears on the page and in your followers' feed.

NoteReviews can be reported by others and are moderated — keep it about the music.

Lists are ordered collections of albums around an idea: a genre's best decade, an artist ranked, a mood.

1. 1Open any album page and hit "+ Add to list".
2. 2Create a new list right there — name it, give it a line of description — or pick an existing one.
3. 3Keep adding albums from their pages. Your list is public at your profile, and others can like it.

The catalog grows on demand. If a search comes up empty, you can pull the artist in yourself — no account needed.

1. 1Search for the artist by name.
2. 2If we don't have them, the empty results page shows an "Add to the catalog" button.
3. 3Click it. We fetch the artist, their discography, and cover art from our data sources in a few seconds.
4. 4Album tracklists fill in automatically the first time anyone opens an album page.

NoteIf a fetched page has wrong or missing data, that's expected occasionally — that's what "Fix the data" below is for.

Wrong release year, missing genres, a thin bio, a song without its lyrics — catalog data comes from external sources and they're not always right. Suggest a correction; a human reviews every one before it goes live.

1. 1Open the artist, album, or track page that needs fixing.
2. 2Hit "Suggest an edit" at the bottom of the page — on a track without lyrics there's a "Know the words?" shortcut right in the lyrics section.
3. 3Fields come prefilled with what we have. Change what's wrong, leave the rest alone, and add a source if you can — it speeds up the review.
4. 4Submit. You can follow the outcome under "My contributions", and we'll notify you either way.

NoteSuggesting edits unlocks after 7 days on Riffiter and 10 ratings — it keeps the queue free of drive-by spam. Approved edits build your contributor record.

Moderation here starts with you. Spam, harassment, and off-topic abuse don't belong in reviews.

1. 1Every review has a small "report" link beneath it — one click flags it.
2. 2A human reviews every report. You won't get spammed about the outcome; the content just gets handled.
3. 3For a user who keeps showing up where you don't want them: you can block them from their profile, which hides their content from your feeds.