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Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by Kkoala »

fluxinflex wrote: post #34

I once built a site that used Spotify playlist data directly. The intention was that you could take one of your own playlist and find playlists that have the greatest overlaps. The intention was to find people with a similiar musical taste to yourself. Interestingly I found a lot of new music that way and also found other music directions that suddenly interested me. Thinking this a little further, it provides the pe…

https://tunemeet.com/ has kind of similar idea, it matches you to other people who are listening to the same song at the moment. Or to people who have some of the top 5 songs as you

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by antihero »

heavytea21475 wrote: post #107
1123581321 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In isolation, perhaps not, but musical taste plus another characteristic can say a lot about someone. (I might be biased because my future wife caught my attention when I overheard her say she liked a certain band in a group setting where most people hadn't heard of it.) Spotify doesn't have its claws in real-life gatherings yet, but they might have something with their music (personality) and podcasts (interests, af…

What does someone's music say about their personality?

If someone likes a lot of niche stuff and more complex, less accessible music, they are likely to take passion for music more seriously as a hobby than somoene who just listens to chart stuff (not that there's anything wrong with that per-say, but I feel being that level of passive would lead to incompatibility).

Certain genres and scenes are also linked to demographics and lifestyles (e.g. hyperpop being very queer leaning, chiptunes being nerdy, punk being political, bassline and techno being linked to the underground rave scene, etc...)

Also if one of your favourite things is going to gigs and festivals, producing music, or following it, having crossover in taste means being able to share a passion.

A large part of my relationship with my partner is listening to music, either at home on the hi-fi, or at events. If we didn't have a decent amount of crossover, this wouldn't really work.

Having exactly the same taste is probably not so great as I think the differences and gaps are a great space to grow and discover.

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by odysseus »

Thanks for this! I tried 3 songs and they came back not found. But on the 4th, I got a good hit! (Mix of Progressive, Deep House & Trance, designed for High Intensity Focus & Created for my Medical School Studying by Austin Nguyen)

https://playlists.dags.dev/tracks/7xdkou0YaNLW9hWXU9MRcR/pla...

Tried a bunch more without success. Granted, I like a lot of obscure electronica.

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by starkd »

NomadicDaggy wrote: post #65
starkd wrote: post #59

Good start, but I'm not sure how song title can extract meaningful similar songs. I put in "Big Time" (song by Peter Gabriel) and it came back with a list of songs from a variety of genres. From smooth jazz selections to songs by Bjork. I think you really need a machine learning approach that categorizes songs by their signal content into categories.

Thanks for the feedback! You are supposed to click on a song to see playlists it contains. Sorry for the unclear UI.

ahh I see. Yeah that makes more sense.

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by propogandist »

fluxinflex wrote: post #34

I once built a site that used Spotify playlist data directly. The intention was that you could take one of your own playlist and find playlists that have the greatest overlaps. The intention was to find people with a similiar musical taste to yourself. Interestingly I found a lot of new music that way and also found other music directions that suddenly interested me. Thinking this a little further, it provides the pe…

spotify constantly calls the facebook SDK to tell it everything you’re doing and listening to, so Facebook has the data although they’ve failed to build a dating app.

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Post by raffraffraff »

mariusor wrote: post #53
fluxinflex wrote: post #34

I once built a site that used Spotify playlist data directly. The intention was that you could take one of your own playlist and find playlists that have the greatest overlaps. The intention was to find people with a similiar musical taste to yourself. Interestingly I found a lot of new music that way and also found other music directions that suddenly interested me. Thinking this a little further, it provides the pe…

Back in the day we used last.fm (nee audioscrobbler.com) for this. :) I have a largish group of friends that I met through similar tastes in music and being "neighbours" on last.fm.

It's nowhere near as good as it was in its hayday in 2006, but I wonder if, instead of specifically finding playlists with the song, you could instead grab 5 songs either side of it in scrobble histories. Sure, you'd have to filter out album tracklists, artist shuffles and then dedupe. But because of what last.fm is (99% a tool for listing everything you've ever listened to) it should have far more data to pick from, including all of your inspired ad-hoc mixes that would otherwise be lost.
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