Start your concert journal

Every part of SoundOff, your rankings, your Discover picks, your friends seeing what you’ve been to, starts from one thing: a logged show. This is where you build that history.

Tap Log Set and you’ll fill in three basics: artist, venue, date. SoundOff’s search handles the messy part, so you’re picking from real matches instead of typing a venue name exactly right. From there, add what you actually remember. A couple of photos, a quick note about the opener or the encore, who you were with. None of it is required. A bare log with just the artist and date is still a real entry.

If you shot anything during the set itself, voice memos, short clips, they attach to the same entry, so the whole night lives in one place instead of scattered across your camera roll.

You don’t have to log in real time to build a real history. Two different modes work here. Rebuilding the past means going back through years of shows you remember and adding them now, filling in your archive at whatever pace you want. Logging tonight means capturing a show while it’s fresh, ideally within a day or two, before the details blur. Most people end up doing some of both: a burst of old shows added when they first start, then new ones logged as they happen.

Every log has a privacy setting. Public entries show up in your profile and your friends’ feeds. Private entries are yours alone, visible only to you, useful for a night you’d rather not broadcast or one you just haven’t decided about yet. You can change this per entry, and you can change your mind later.

Here’s the part that makes the journal worth keeping current: it’s not just a scrapbook. Your logged shows are what SoundOff uses to build your Discover recommendations, the artists you follow, the venues you keep returning to, the genres your history actually points to. A thin journal gets generic picks. A real one gets picks that feel like they know you.

If you’re starting from scratch and staring at a blank journal, don’t try to reconstruct your entire concert-going life in one sitting. Start with the shows you’d actually call your favorites, the ones you still bring up in conversation. Those five or ten entries alone are usually enough to give Discover something real to work with. You can always go back and fill in the gaps, the small local shows, the openers you barely remember, whenever you happen to think of them.

Tagging friends who were there with you is worth doing as you go, too, not just for the social side of it. A show with three friends tagged tells a different story than one you went to alone, and it’s the kind of detail that’s easy to forget if you wait too long to log it. If a friend already logged the same night before you did, you don’t need to build a duplicate entry from scratch, you can request to be tagged on theirs instead and let them confirm it.

Start with whatever’s easiest, the show you saw last week, or the one you still remember from years ago. Log your first show and the rest of SoundOff starts working from there.