Obscure movie-reference journal-entry title tie-up aside, I’ve pushed out another feature update to The Compendium. Preview MP3s for many of the 500,000+ artists and releases on the site.
It’s not the prettiest of things, but it does the job and that’s the important thing. On Artist pages the availability of music previews should be pretty obvious – it’s the link that says ‘Free MP3s’. Because they are. And that’s that. The 99 cents was a lie. Clicking this cunning little hyperlink should present you with a juicy list of the found music from across the Internets, with an inline preview player and alternative sources where possible.
On Release pages, available previews are indicated by the double-quavers directly next to tracklists. These little green nuggets of Unicode trickery used to link directly to a Spotify search, but were largely redundant for most people outside of Europe without Spotify access. For the time being, these link directly to the mp3 file and/or source page – inline previews coming soon. 
Go listen! Bonus points for anyone who recognises the source of this post’s title.
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As the title of this entry might suggest, it involves record reviews! Reviews are already an integral part of release entries on