We now offer label-based email notifications!

For a while we've had label subscriptions, whereby each new release on that label was automatically ordered for you. This was handy for FAX and other "collectible" labels, but it was woefully inadequate for those of you who wanted simply to be notified every time we added something new to the catalog from a given label. I received many an email from customers, understandably surprised because an item had been automatically ordered for them.

Well I'm happy to announce that we now have notifications as well as subscriptions. When you get search results or detailed information about a release, you'll see "Notify Me" next to the label name. If you click this link (and have created an account with us and are logged in), a notification will be set up so that any time we add an item to the catalog from that label, you'll receive an email message. If what you really wanted was a subscription, you need only go to the user interface (there is a link above the search box) and make this change. In the user interface you will see a list of all your subscriptions and notifications, if you have any. Next to each one are two links, "Del" and "Set to". These links allow you to delete a notification/subscription, or to convert a notification into a subscription (and vice versa).

In the future we plan to have a "saved searches" type of notification so that you will, for example, be able to choose to be notified when any new Bill Laswell releases are added to the catalog, or any new DVDs, or any releases whose description contains "ethereal", and so on.