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by CrypticShift 860 days ago
It would be possible to plug an LLM [1] into the stream history and be able to directly type the ideas you cited and get instant results.

> If you had this data at scale

That was the "raison d'etre" of last.fm. Alas, it is not popular anymore (=smaller scale)

> favourite songs from people who enjoy similar niches to you

In last.fm, you can go to an artist's listener page [2], pick a user who "listens to Televators a lot", export their most-listened/loved tracks to Spotify, filter them by genre, and try them out :). You could also go to a track page [3], pick a user who commented on it, and do the same.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261486

[2] https://www.last.fm/music/The+Mars+Volta/+listeners

[3] https://www.last.fm/music/The+Mars+Volta/_/Televators