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by hyphmngo 777 days ago
Thanks for trying it out and leaving some feedback!

I initially released this to a small Twitter audience who are fans of electronic music and didn't expect it to be posted elsewhere. The plan is to bring in other genres and styles soon while still keeping the data quite niche. My motivation in building this was for music diggers looking for more out-of-the-way suggestions that aren't on traditional DSP catalogues (think sub-genres of dance music that only release 300 copies on vinyl, etc.).

I've updated the h2 tag and some meta descriptions to try flag up electronic only for now and will look at other ways to signpost it better.

The search isn't great, as you mentioned. At the moment, I'm using a simple text matcher from a Vector DB but will look at moving this over to something more powerful that can handle diacritics, ranking, TF-IDF, etc. I have seen a lot of people searching via "artist - track" or pasting a YouTube link for things that are already in the index, indicating they couldn't find it in the search.