Music Suggestions Ninja

Enter an artist's name & find similar, lesser known artists

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Enter an artist's name & find similar, lesser known artists

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Hunter

I love Pandora but it seems to always surface Billboard top 100 hits or far-too-familiar music. This is a neat way to uncover music you might love but never heard before. Here's the Mos Def tree:

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11yr ago

PacketZoom

@rrhoover Do you use the Add Variety feature? I feel if you add 3-5 additional artists, Pandora does a great job keeping the station fresh.

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11yr ago

Product Hunt Regular

As an obsessive music hunter for Musicgeeks (http://musicgeeks.co), this is pretty interesting. I wish it wasn't built on Youtube; this is what Soundcloud should do well and doesn't. I'm growing more fascinated with Spotify's underlying graph, which is powered by Everynoise / Echo Nest (and the human touch of the a genius I've been following for 10+ years, Glenn McDonald). There's this fascinating intersection in music discovery of human curation and algorithms / similarity trees / graphs. The latter often has no chance of really blowing your music landscape wide open. The former mandates quite a bit of trust and even patience, as you'll almost inevitably be fed songs that don't land for you. Then there's the desire spectrum, on which on one hand you have people who really just want the deepest dive possible on a genre like Southern Rock, and on the other hand people who want to be exposed to different types of music across many or all genres. Nevertheless, the more experiments happening in this space, the better!

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11yr ago

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Maker

Hi guys! I'm glad you like my web app. I find it useful because it does fill a little niche - it helps me to find new bands quickly in a genre-specific way rather than a crowd-sourced (or crowd-biased) way. As mentioned, since its more genre oriented it alleviates receiving the same Top40 radio-friendly bands (most of the time). Personally I've already found six bands that I feel like I should have been listening to all along! I've got a lot of great comments for improvements and I am working on a new version (Yellow Belt) that will try to follow up on the comments (including the much asked-for increased repertoire of Norwegian metal bands!). There's always room for improvement, so I would love to hear more if you have ideas for improving or comments about how it has helped you or if you enjoyed it! And if your interested in the inner-workings you can check out my blog: http://www.rpiai.com and leave a message if your curious about something! Thanks!

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11yr ago

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This is pretty intriguing. Music discovery all starts with exposure to new things, not reintroductions to the same top 100 hits you've seen already.

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11yr ago

Trello

I generated a couple playlists and am not quite convinced with how close the similarities are but definitely want to play around with a bit more. I really like how you can instantly launch a playlist in Youtube and start listening to the tree. When I get a great suggestion from asongaday.co I'll probably use this to follow the rabbit

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11yr ago

Starry

I love the idea! Unfortunately, I already found an edge case: I tried to generate a playlist for Priory, but instead got a tree and playlist for Proxy.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@lumilux Yep, Priory is currently not in the DB. Its been added since, so wait for the Yellow Belt version!

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11yr ago