What’s New?
Improvements to finding musicians in your area
We’ve updated our musician finder to make it easier to discover and connect with other musicians in your area. Skill level, instruments and genres are now included in results. You can also now select a specific genre or instrument to search for, in addition to specifying a location.
Just click “Learn More” to learn about each one, and send them a message to schedule a jam.
Rock on! 
Great Mike, that’s a nice improvement!
This way you can quickly see what demand there is for musicians.
Do you also see opportunities to show the musicians who are actively offering themselves?
The two badges “Wanted: New Members” and “Wanted: New Students” are used to indicate people who are actively looking for other musicians, or offering themselves. You can enable these under your studio’s visibility settings.
The “New Members” wording is perhaps too geared towards groups versus individuals, but as you can see in the screenshot (thanks, Jesse and JohnY) it also works for individuals. Maybe we should change it to something like “Wanted: Others Musicians?” Or maybe keep it more in line with the wording from our visibility settings: “Looking for musicians” and “Open to new students”?
Yes I understand that the data comes from the different studios and whether additional musicians are needed. But what I also find useful is to see which musicians are offering themselves.
I hope I am clear…
Perhaps based on the individual profile.
Hi @jcool, the search results currently include both groups and individuals who are looking to play with other people. A studio can represent either, and we don’t currently differentiate between them. We could add an additional field (“Individual” versus “Band” versus “Chorus” to do this), but I think it’s generally pretty clear from the names.
I do think the “Wanted” and “members” word choice was a bit misleading, so I just updated this as well to hopefully make it clearer.
Great work, once again, Mike. Thanks. I have been encouraging my adult students in class at College of Marin to explore using JackTrip to find fellow guitar enthusiasts to both practice and play with. Always grateful for your work. Pat
I like what I see so far.
I have a suggestion. One thing that I think would be interesting and helpful, would be if when connected to the JT site, you could see public studios that are currently online. Maybe there is already a way to do this, but if some studios are public, open jams… it would be cool to make them easy to find.
Another thing that would be cool would be a calendar view that you could look at the entire schedule of all the studios, and filter by different things, depending on your needs.
I have been going through and looking at the planned live streams and looking at lists of studios, but it feels sort of like going through a stack of papers one by one looking for something… the technology to play is great. I have even been able to play with my brother, 2400 miles away with the click. But I’d love to see more ways for local musicians to find each other.
Thank you and see you guys online. 
Hello @gabe.brooks,
Thank you for these suggestions. We do highlight public studio sessions at the “top” of the list and display prominent “Join Now” buttons whenever they have active sessions. JackTrip’s studios always default to being private, and very few people seem to ever change this. That is why you don’t see these very often.
We also display all upcoming events at the very top. So both features exist, but there are just not a lot of people using them.
Take care,
-Mike
