outside picks an album for the weather outside your window. It reads the current sky, temperature, wind and humidity, along with the local time and season, and turns them into one of twenty-two moods. Then it draws a record that fits the mood, the temperature it feels like, the season and the hour.
The corpus is hand-curated: 1094 albums, leaning toward the left-field end of things, from ambient and drone to dub techno, UK bass, IDM and jazz at the edges. Each one is tagged with the seasons and times of day it suits, and comes with a line on why it belongs to its weather.
Weather from OpenWeatherMap, or Open-Meteo when it is out of reach. Places from Open-Meteo and OpenStreetMap, covers from Spotify and the Cover Art Archive.
keys
- space →
- next album
on a phone
- swipe the cover
- next album
- ▶
- a 30 second preview
privacy
outside keeps nothing about you on its servers. To show an album straight away, it uses the approximate city of your internet connection, read with the page request and not stored. If you choose "use my location", your position is used once instead, to find the weather where you are, and is not stored either. A shared link only ever names the city.
Your language, your theme and the albums you've seen lately stay in your own browser. There is no account and no advertising.
Visits are counted anonymously with Vercel Web Analytics, without cookies and without telling one visitor from another from one day to the next. Vercel Speed Insights measures how fast the pages load.
If you suggest an album, outside keeps the album, your note if you write one, and the city and weather of that moment, so the suggestion can be reviewed. Nothing that identifies you is kept.
To work, the site asks OpenWeatherMap for the weather (Open-Meteo when it is out of reach), and Open-Meteo or OpenStreetMap for city names. The player is embedded from Spotify, and the buttons open Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and YouTube, each under its own privacy policy.
legal
Published by Comperi, a personal, non-commercial project.
Hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Avenue #4133, Covina, CA 91723, United States.
Album covers, titles and previews belong to their rights holders.
curated & developed by Comperi