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by itm 2503 days ago
Hello,

Please feel free to provide any feedback on this project.

I tried my best to make a README as complete as possible, but any remark/suggestion is welcome (English is not my native language).

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Hey, it looks great! The Readme is really thorough, thanks.

What's been your rationale for building it, what does it better than the rest?

Hey, thanks for your feedback!

That's a good question, I have to admit there are a lot of similar softwares available these days.

I noticed that I tend to always listen to the same music, and sadly I even forget the music I have. That's why I tried to put as many links as I can in the interface to easily jump from a title/release/artist/albumartist/genre/whatevercustomtag to another one. In particular, it should handle (custom) tags with multiple values, and it can filter over some of them on all views.

I also tried to make a recommendation engine that makes use of a SOM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map). For that it fetches data from AcousticBrainz (https://acousticbrainz.org/) and makes clusters of songs that have similar audio characteristics. I have to say it's not perfect (it's quite good to cluster metal tracks though), but I would like to go deeper into this subject.

Apart from that, it is really lightweight and that was not really the case of the avalaible softwares when I started it.