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Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm

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Re: Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by parabyl »

potatoman22 wrote: post #16

This is great! I've done a similar thing with knn clustering and it had fun results. Would you mind sharing a bit about the data science behind this project? One issue I ran into was the numeric features I clustered with didn't care about genre, so the resulting playlists had some interesting mixes.

Thank you! That's super cool - I'm not nearly as familiar with data science as it sounds you are, I've just made some choice placements in building a UI around the Spotify API. They're hiding the nuts and bolts of turning a set of music feature parameters into a list of recommendations.

Re: Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by parabyl »

liminalsunset wrote: post #20

I have been playing with this and I really like the concept. A few nitpicky points of feedback 1) It would be nice if the button to play a sample of the song was located on each song or somewhere close to it, so that you wouldn't have to move your mouse to the bottom 2) The volume slider isn't super obvious as to its function, I originally thought it was a seek bar. Maybe a Volume icon would help here 3) Most importa…

Glad you're enjoying it, always open to nitpicky feedback. I'll put all of these suggestions on the backlog and see how they play together - thanks!

Re: Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by parabyl »

spondylosaurus wrote: post #11
phaedrus wrote: post #10

A feature I've long desired would be to be able to ask what lies between or along the average or sum of the vectors representing two arbitrary songs or bands. For example what music is midway between "Florence and the Machine" and "Primus"? Or, what happens if you take the vector from Green Day to Modest Mouse and extend it - do you land on another (presumably obscure indie) band? If Spotify won't give me those toys,…

There's a webapp called Boil the Frog that does exactly this!

This is very cool, hadn't heard of it before. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by imbnwa »

parabyl wrote: post #9
digging wrote: post #8

Interesting! Too late for me; Spotify's declining recommendation capability was one of several issues that allowed me to cancel my subscription. I really wish streaming services would just let us give conscious direction instead of trying to hack our brains. They're not as good at as they think.

If you still want to give it a shot, you shouldn't need an active subscription for it to work. But I do totally get moving away from the streaming world. Even bandcamp is losing its ground as a safe a haven for making sure artists are paid their worth.

Wait, what changed at bandcamp?

Re: Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by tripdout »

I'm not sure if I've just already found all the good music released in the past few years by my 10 favorite artists or what, but the recommendations I got were either songs I didn't like or songs that Spotify already tends to recommend me (which are great, but I already have them all saved)

Re: Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by eddd-ddde »

digging wrote: post #8

Interesting! Too late for me; Spotify's declining recommendation capability was one of several issues that allowed me to cancel my subscription. I really wish streaming services would just let us give conscious direction instead of trying to hack our brains. They're not as good at as they think.

I find youtubes music algorithm to be on point most of the time for me. I just click one song and listen bunch of songs i enjoy, new and old.

Re: Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by SleepyMyroslav »

eddd-ddde wrote: post #26
digging wrote: post #8

Interesting! Too late for me; Spotify's declining recommendation capability was one of several issues that allowed me to cancel my subscription. I really wish streaming services would just let us give conscious direction instead of trying to hack our brains. They're not as good at as they think.

I find youtubes music algorithm to be on point most of the time for me. I just click one song and listen bunch of songs i enjoy, new and old.

Completely opposite experience. It quickly drifts either its own 'genre' playlist or your own history tops or nowhere. I find it much easier to pick some community playlist and it has more chances to be self consistent than any 10 radio songs played by yt music.

Re: Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by httpsterio »

imbnwa wrote: post #24
parabyl wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you still want to give it a shot, you shouldn't need an active subscription for it to work. But I do totally get moving away from the streaming world. Even bandcamp is losing its ground as a safe a haven for making sure artists are paid their worth.

Wait, what changed at bandcamp?

it got sold to Epic Games a while back.
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