More than a modern-day Napster, I'd love to see a modern day AudioGalaxy as it was initially conceived. Genres and sub-genres linked organically and visually. You could explore for hours and hours and hours and find new music to try.
Alternately, I'd love to be able to tweak the parameters of Soundcloud's recommendation engine, so that it was less like "You listed to 3 songs like this last week... here's 25 more songs very similar to those."
I know they acqui-hired Paul Lamere (of Infinite Jukebox and Boil the Frog fame), I'd love to be able to get automagic "everything-in-between" for a variety of songs from my recent past. My tastes trend broader than they do deep, though, so I reckon I'm an outlier.
Music discovery has always been a hard problem, but I think AG back in the day had it mostly solved.
The piracy people were saying forever that the music industry just needs to offer their music in a comparable form and people won't need to use stuff like Napster. It's interesting to see it working so well, with Spotify's growth charts are straight upward.
But considering all the P2P tech I'm sure someone could create an open-source Spotify replacement if they did it right.
Alternately, I'd love to be able to tweak the parameters of Soundcloud's recommendation engine, so that it was less like "You listed to 3 songs like this last week... here's 25 more songs very similar to those."
I know they acqui-hired Paul Lamere (of Infinite Jukebox and Boil the Frog fame), I'd love to be able to get automagic "everything-in-between" for a variety of songs from my recent past. My tastes trend broader than they do deep, though, so I reckon I'm an outlier.
Music discovery has always been a hard problem, but I think AG back in the day had it mostly solved.
(Edit: fixed the spelling of Paul's name.)