Like an RSS reader for music.

We’ve been playing around with a playlist generator called Kollekt.fm, and although it’s been around for a little while the developers have just added a new function that makes it a powerful tool for getting music recommendations from all the right sources.

The basic idea is to aggregate all the places you’d usually search for music into one customised stream, so as well as sources that host music, like YouTube and Soundcloud, it pulls tracks from places where music is posted, like Facebook and blogs. It’s basically like an RSS feed for music you actually like.

So if you currently follow your favourite acts’ Facebook pages and YouTube channels, read a couple of blogs and keep up with some artists on Soundcloud, Kollekt.fm will let you have all those updates in one place as a constantly refreshing playlist. We tried it for ourselves by picking out a few of our own top sources for new music and setting the filters (for instance, you can choose to only get tracks you’ve not listened to before), and we got a pretty decent selection of new music.

You can easily just pick other playlists to follow if you don’t want to make your own, and browsing the existing playlists suggests that current users have a preference for house and techno – well, it is a Dutch startup.

Here’s a video explaining how the feeds work – try it out on Kollekt.fm.