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by inertiatic 2250 days ago
That's very cool, I've been thinking about making a similar thing to discover new music but for a few bands I checked this does both provide bands I know to be similar as well as bands that I don't know.

This seems to be powered by http://www.gnoosic.com/, is this the only source of data?
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BLKNSLVR 2250 days ago
I'm guessing that The Mars Volta may be one of your pet loves. I worked this out via ... ESP

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inertiatic 2250 days ago
Indeed! But that wasn't what I tried. Just tried that one though and a few limitations pop up. Omar's solo projects turn up a large distance away from the band, lesser known bands that I consider to be very close in sound don't show up close to it. And there are multiple entries for Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, with and without the dash.

I'm starting to feel that depending on users to provide explicit lists misses a lot of interesting data, unfortunately.

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