Record Room, Redesigned: Your Little Listening Room

Most music apps are built for speed: search, tap, next. That works, but it skips the part many of us remember most fondly: running a finger along the spines, pulling out a sleeve, turning it over, and deciding that this is the one.

Record Room is built around that moment. The latest version has been redesigned from the ground up into something smaller and more personal: your own little listening room, where you flick through the shelves, turn an album over, and put a record on.

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From a whole shop to a room of your own

Earlier versions of Record Room imagined a full 3D record shop, with crates on the floor, props on every surface, and a lot to walk around. It was fun, but it asked a lot of visitors before the music started.

The redesign narrows the focus. The whole experience now lives in a phone-shaped listening room: a 3D record shelf at the top and a turntable at the bottom. Next to it sits a large stage for album artwork. It’s built around touch gestures, works with a mouse and keyboard on desktop, and gets you from arriving to listening in a few taps.

Flick through the shelves

The collection holds more than 360 records across 21 shelves. Flick left or right to fan through the sleeves, and swipe up or down to move to another shelf. If you already know what you’re after, search by album or artist and the shelves narrow to just the matching records.

Browsing is meant to feel physical. Sleeves lean and fan as you move through them, and each shelf has its own small character, with figures standing between the records.

Take a closer look

Tap a sleeve and it comes out of the shelf and onto the close-up stage, where there’s room to enjoy every detail. Drag to look around the jacket, tap the sleeve to flip it over, and open gatefolds to see the inner artwork laid out flat.

Cover art was always part of listening. The close-up stage gives it the scale it deserves on a screen.

Put a record on

When you’ve made your choice, tap the exposed vinyl and it goes onto the turntable. The record spins up and playback starts through YouTube inside the room, with a link to open the video in YouTube if you prefer.

Then comes one of our favourite details: Find next. While a record plays, you can hide the video and go back to the shelves. The current record keeps spinning while you search, pick up, and flip other albums. When you find the next one, tap its vinyl to switch.

It feels like standing at the shelf while the music plays: half listening, half looking for what comes next.

Make it your room

A listening room should feel like yours, so the redesign adds two ways to personalise it.

Collectible figures

Record Room now has 41 collectibles. They include musician figures such as Paul McCartney, Amy Winehouse, Freddie Mercury, and members of The Tragically Hip, plus objects like a Hofner bass, the Yellow Submarine, the Stanley Cup, and the World Cup. Each has a rarity tier, from bronze up to gold.

Unlock a figure, then choose where it lives. Position 1 sits in front of the turntable, and positions 2 to 5 sit on the first four shelves. The cabinet lets you search your collection and filter by what you’ve unlocked or have on display.

Choose your turntable

There are three decks to choose from: a Classic wood cabinet, a silver Technics SL-1200 MK2 with a clear dust cover, and a black Sony PS-LX300USB. Switching decks doesn’t interrupt the music, and the current record keeps playing.

Your figures and your deck are saved on your device, so the room is set up the way you left it when you come back.

Small details that matter

• Drag to look around. Both the album and the turntable can be rotated, and each view has a reset button to return to its starting angle.
• A room that breathes. Leave the turntable alone for a few seconds and the view gently orbits around it.
• Respectful motion. Animations follow your device’s motion settings.
• Keyboard friendly. Arrow keys browse the shelves or rotate the focused album or turntable, R resets the view, Enter picks up or flips an album, and Escape puts it back.

Respect for artists and rights holders

Record Room is an experiential layer around music that already lives on streaming platforms. Playback runs through YouTube, so listening benefits the artists and rights holders behind the work. We’re not building a replacement catalogue. We’re building a nicer place to spend time with music that already exists.

Where it’s going

The redesign gives Record Room a clear core, and we’ll keep building on it. That means more records on the shelves, more figures to collect, and more polish on how sleeves, vinyl, and turntables feel to handle.

The goal hasn’t changed: online listening should feel less like a spreadsheet and more like a room you’d want to stay in.

Step inside

→ Enter your listening room at recordroom.music

Flick through the shelves. Turn an album over. Put a record on.