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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 hammock »

NomadicDaggy wrote: post #17
hammock wrote: post #16

How does this work on mobile? There’s no submit form button

Thanks for the feedback, I'll add a button. For me it works just by pressing "enter" on the mobile keyboard, but admittedly I didn't test it very thoroughly.

Maybe I tested it during hug of death. Return “worked” (I could press it) but there was no indication given even by the browser progress bar that anything was happening as a result

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

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Post by Inversechi »

tuzemec wrote: post #48
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…

Remember last.fm? If I remember correctly, it was able to show other profiles with similar music taste.

It still does - in the Neighbours view.

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

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Post by nonameiguess »

blfr wrote: post #47
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…

> Thinking this a little further, it provides the perfekt basis for a dating application. Music is a very personally representation of oneself and if you find someone who has the same muscial taste, you already have a common basis for communication. I don't think a shared taste in music is that important, or at all, in a relationship but this is the premise of aptly named Tastebuds[1], a dating app based around favor…

You can base a relationship on plenty of other things, but shared interest in something is pretty important. Music can be a big one for a lot of people. My wife and I met at a KMFDM show, and traveling to music festivals is still the biggest social thing we have going on at all. Doing that without her would be a lot less gratifying than doing it with her.

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

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Post by NomadicDaggy »

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.

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

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Post by opheliate »

This kind of thing has always seemed quite interesting (and worrying!) to me from an OSINT perspective. It seems like if you just know a couple of some anonymous person's favourite songs from various genres, you could identify possible Spotify accounts they may also own. As far as I can tell, it's basically impossible to discuss anything remotely personal online without jeopardizing pseudonymity.

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

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Post by nsteel »

stall84 wrote: post #54

Spotify has had a pretty awesome public api for a while

It looks great on paper but the quotas and lack of support make it painful to use outside of toys. The dev forums are full of these complaints, and before that the github repos were too. We are long overdue being moved to another platform so they can more legitimately ignore the same old support issues and requests they don't intend to solve. Websockets is a good example, libspotify successor another. Frustrating.
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