[heyplanet]

The title made it sound like the discovery engine is used in games. So I took a look, but it seems to be the music is used in games.

If you are as music-crazy as me, try this discovery site:

http://www.gnoosic.com

It is my daily driver to discover new music.

[flanbiscuit]

Gave it a shot. Put in 3 musicians/groups I love. I got 11 suggestions, I knew 7 of them already. Out of all the suggestion only one of them had any kind embedded media (Youtube) sample, that's it, no links or anything else for the other ones. I'll give it a shot with more main stream bands and see if that changes, could just be the genre/groups I chose.

Pretty neat and on point as far as the suggestions I did recognize though. Wish there at least a basic outgoing link for each suggestion

[freepor]

In a few seconds you got 4 new music recommendations? I gotta try this.

[trynewideas]

It told me I'd like the music of Women: http://www.gnoosic.com/artist/women

I don't know what to do with this information

[evo_9]

Look them up on Discogs.com for more info. I typically preview bands I find from my own sources using Youtube, soundcloud and bandcamp.

Also Women formed another band called Viet Cong, and then after getting rolling had some pushback on the name, changed their name to Preconceptions. Great band, saw them live at Desert Daze last year.

Also one of the band members recently tweeted something about wanting to hear more Women so they might be reforming.

[MrJagil]

Jokes on you, Women is a really awesome band, greatly respected and missed by those in the know.

[nefitty]

Wow, nice job. Women is one of my favorite bands.

I randomly get these weird urges to build playlists around certain bands or songs, so this sort of service helps a lot. The others I use, which take way more work, are last.fm, rate your music and Pandora.

[code_duck]

This is especially vague combined with the Facebook ad: ‘Start reacting today. Connect to the world’.

Listening to the music of: women. Sounds like I’m starting at the very basics.

[f137]

A link to wiki wouldn't hurt here

[fredophile]

Would you say the 7 you already knew are similar to the 3 you entered?

[speedgoose]

I clicked on the link without much expectations, a broken HTTPS configuration is never a good sign, but I'm actually surprised by the results. It suggests the obvious similar artists, but also some very unknown artists with very few listeners on Spotify, but similar music.

The other website https://www.music-map.com/ is also interesting. It appears that I'm not very original in my music tastes.

[airstrike]

Seems like this is also a part of Gnod. Thanks for sharing

Does anyone have any insight into how this is built?

[nefitty]

Couldn't find a lot of info, but the creator Marek Gibney was featured in an MIT Tech Review article.

“If 90 percent of the readers of Douglas Hofstadter also like [Stephen] Hawking, the distance between these two writers in the Hofstadter-Hawking dimension is 0.1,” Gibney says.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2004/03/19/40243/sketchy-in...

[airstrike]

Thank you

[maltenuhn]

It's worked well for me: [Bob Dylan, Yacht, Bjork] => Halfby. Recommendation makes sense, and triggers fond memories of feeding last.fm :) I like the agency in this site.

[rosstex]

I didn't enter any lo-fi artists and ended up in a lo-fi rabbit hole. Not complaining though

[twirlip]

Same here. I put in Carsick Cars, Spacemen 3 (Gnod didn't have The Men), and Sun City Girls. What I got was Moonbell, Water Fai, etc. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 was close to what I was looking for, but only in the way a Hot Pocket is like a burrito.

[samizdis]

Just tried that and it seems potentially useful (except that it recommended two of the three bands I'd stated I liked in the first place). Thanks for the recommendation.

[lovehashbrowns]

I tried this and the very first recommendation it gave me is already amazing. Thanks! Gonna add this to my other music discovery tools.

[karmakaze]

Great. It found I like retro german dance-pop: Klee