@tommullen we are working on a better filtering system that would include those and give people more control.
But honestly, I believe that genres are a thing from the past and today artists are growing so much beyond the label someone put on them, that everything comes down to the individual track. That is why Pandora is doing so great, because they have the money and resources to profile each song, and I hope Enso grows into that direction.
Can you tell me more about the "record collection idea"?
Love the app - music discovery and curation is hot right now, and will only be getting more important as more and more people gain access to the huge libraries of music offered by Spotify, Apple Music etc! Do your likes and dislikes of songs influence your suggestions? Do you have some kind of algorithm that tailors the suggestions to the user?
@weheartscott we are working on an a set of algorithms we call "Serendipity", they take in account your likes, dislikes, certain context information, etc and try to tune the flow a bit to your preferences, but in a way that also keeps surprising you with new things, that a classical recommendation algorithm will never play for you.
@ivosabev what do you mean by "your choice to create the music discovery experience that we all deserve", how do you create your own experience?
As a student, I used to spend hours on blogs and in the deepest parts of Soundcloud, jumping from artists to their own followings. I've found it was the best way for me to find the best hidden gems, but it's so time consuming. It usually took me less than 30 seconds on each artist page to decide if it was worth listening to it more, but it took many no's to find something I really loved. I'd really love to be able to do this while eliminating the need of digging myself. An app like this one sounds really promising, but I'm really wondering in which way it is less "don't worry we will take it from here and you will listen to what we tell you" than Spotify?
Also, I see you're looking for curators. I might be interested :)
@thomgroutars you said it - the best way to discover quality music is to really dig deep and read, and listen, and the follow the links to the next blog, and listen, and read on wikipedia, and so on. But it takes an awful amount of time. That's why we are working on a technology that crawls those blogs and playlists for you and our in-house curators make sure we use the best sources.
And then you get that personal experience, I mentioned, because with each like and dislike we understand you better and the next song you hear on Enso will reflect that.
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hey @ivosabev@angeln I was just digging in the hip-hop section for about 15 minutes and I noticed that even after swiping left on certain songs, they are somehow served to me again. This shouldn't be happing right?
Also when i go into "my music" section I noticed that a lot of the songs I swiped right on while digging in the hip-hop section, now appear in 5 different categories such as "decades, hip-hop, party, rnb, and soul". Why have you decided to categories hip-hop (and i'm guessing you do the same for other main genres) even further for the "my music" section? This is a bit confusing to me.
Would it be possible for you to read someone's music library on their phone so that the songs they already have are excluded from surfacing on your app? This would be a really useful feature.
Congrats on the launch of Enso, it's a really cool music app, and those are rare these days. Hit me up if you're looking for more hip-hop curators, id love to help!
@madebyildi when you swipe a song left it never comes back unless you specifically search for it, but unfortunately most of the songs have more than one releases and versions, in albums, compilations, etc and we don't have a way to map them to the same thing, yet.
Songs fit in more than one category, that when you like them they might drop in both hip-hop and rnb, and so on. Music metadata is one of the greatest challenges of music recommendation and we are working on a better filter for our 2.0 version.
Yes, it is possible to read you library not only on the phone, but eventually on Spotify or even Facebook likes, this will help us skip the on-boarding and start you at the music you like, rather than dropping you somewhere randomly. It is in the pipeline.
Thanks for you kind words and feedback. What you guys have to say is really important to us, because the resources of startups are very limited and it helps us focus on what really matter to the people that actually use the product.
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I've been using Enso for a while - it's a great way to discover new songs to listen to later on. Keep up the good work, guys!
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I am one of the beta testers and I did discover some nice music. It could still use a lot of improvements, but that's exactly why Enso needs you. Download it, play with it and ask Enso to improve it!!!!
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@ivosabev Looks really similar to this app called Choosic which I tested recently. Will definitely try Enso as well, though, because the UI looks great and I never say no to discovering new music. Good luck in the future!!
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