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by oaththrowaway
1245 days ago
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Back in the day there was a project called Tomahawk Player that tied into a service called Echo Nest (which I believe got purchased and shut down by Spotify). For me that was the peak of music discovery. I haven't been able to replicate it yet. |
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I know this is a Hard Problem, but I also think it is a problem with a great deal of payoff. Art (music, movies, books, etc) is unique in that someone will very much want "more of the same" but not the exact same thing (the identical song). People want the same cheeseburger over and over again, but not the same bit of music. Being able to say "more of that" and actually get the right results back, rather than "more of what other people who liked that song liked" would be a huge boon, but so far, we just don't have the analysis to automate that kind of thing.
It's also hard when it comes to identifying what features must be conserved. On Reddit, you'll get questions, say in the /r/horror subreddit, such as "I really liked May; more like this!" and I will ask, "More with Angela Bettis? More by director Lucky McKee? More about body parts? More where the lead undergoes some late stage transition from average to alluring? What, in particular, did you want more of?"
You can sort of replicate this on Discogs by looking up band members and trying to hunt down later or earlier projects from them, but again, that's just a proxy for a particular quality.