Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've worked on this problem for some time on a personal project, and I'm pretty convinced you can basically solve this problem without deep learning or AI techniques, and instead use non-negative matrix factorization[0] as a bank of note templates (from their spectrograms). I have a fairly well working proof of concept and the approach is supported by the literature. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_ma…
This is the right approach for song recommendation too — try your approach there and see what happens. If you want help on the business side, reach out.
Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
21–30 of 83 posts
Re: Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
#22You would think getting the notes and converting them to chords, and tablature, would be one of those "exactly suited for neural nets" type of problem. If you want the chords to "Here comes the sun," you can find dozens of hits, but try something slightly obscure and they are hard to come by. (People with great ears have no idea what I am talking about.)
Thus propagating the NN "If all you have is a hammer" trend. I don't quite know the nuance of music theory, but could you not get away with traditional Fourier analysis? You just need to decompose the song into its constituent frequency "bins" right?
Re: Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
#23Against my better judgement I actually logged in with Spotify, only to find that it just didn't work. I'm not really sure what I was expecting anyway. There used to be a great trade in guitar chords online, but then lots of small sites got taken down and ultimategyitar tried to put a big shitty paywall around years and years of high quality content made by volunteers and often scraped from other sites.
Seriously ultimate guitar just effed over so many people who put time and effort into spreading guitar chords. That and their site is covered in so much ad content.
How am I being ‘effed over’? I might be, but I haven’t spotted how.
Re: Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
#24Against my better judgement I actually logged in with Spotify, only to find that it just didn't work. I'm not really sure what I was expecting anyway. There used to be a great trade in guitar chords online, but then lots of small sites got taken down and ultimategyitar tried to put a big shitty paywall around years and years of high quality content made by volunteers and often scraped from other sites.
UG sucks for precisely the reasons you mention.
I suppose the trade-off is that now all the great folks who were making nice tab content are on YT, but still, if you'r business model is making money off aggregating a bunch of content people created in the early 00s because the love of it, then that's hyper lame.
I still use UG if I am in a hurry and want a quick idea of other folks' take on the structure of a song, but I'm thankful I outgrew the need for other folks' transcriptions.
Re: Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
#25Re: Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
#26You would think getting the notes and converting them to chords, and tablature, would be one of those "exactly suited for neural nets" type of problem. If you want the chords to "Here comes the sun," you can find dozens of hits, but try something slightly obscure and they are hard to come by. (People with great ears have no idea what I am talking about.)
Re: Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
#27You would think getting the notes and converting them to chords, and tablature, would be one of those "exactly suited for neural nets" type of problem. If you want the chords to "Here comes the sun," you can find dozens of hits, but try something slightly obscure and they are hard to come by. (People with great ears have no idea what I am talking about.)
I've worked on this problem for some time on a personal project, and I'm pretty convinced you can basically solve this problem without deep learning or AI techniques, and instead use non-negative matrix factorization[0] as a bank of note templates (from their spectrograms). I have a fairly well working proof of concept and the approach is supported by the literature. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_ma…
If anyone knows of any apps (even prototypes) that can do this, please provide links.
Re: Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
#28Oh so this is not what I thought it is. I thought it actually figures out the chords for any given song.
I feel a lot of egg on my face
Re: Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've worked on this problem for some time on a personal project, and I'm pretty convinced you can basically solve this problem without deep learning or AI techniques, and instead use non-negative matrix factorization[0] as a bank of note templates (from their spectrograms). I have a fairly well working proof of concept and the approach is supported by the literature. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_ma…
As an amateur musician I see this as a missing holy grail killer app. I'd love to have it just to pull the chords out of some of my own old recordings that I can't figure out how to repeat. If anyone knows of any apps (even prototypes) that can do this, please provide links.
Re: Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists
#30Against my better judgement I actually logged in with Spotify, only to find that it just didn't work. I'm not really sure what I was expecting anyway. There used to be a great trade in guitar chords online, but then lots of small sites got taken down and ultimategyitar tried to put a big shitty paywall around years and years of high quality content made by volunteers and often scraped from other sites.
I learned to play guitar back in the 90s when the OLGA was still a thing. UG sucks for precisely the reasons you mention. I suppose the trade-off is that now all the great folks who were making nice tab content are on YT, but still, if you'r business model is making money off aggregating a bunch of content people created in the early 00s because the love of it, then that's hyper lame. I still use UG if I am in a hurr…
So Ultimate Guitar is a steal really. I got a lifetime subscription a couple of years ago but I would also sign up for a monthly plan gladly.