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Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

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Re: Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

#72
Interesting, I put in a bunch of my favourite songs and found nothing I liked. The songs seem to be over matching on drum beat and tempo so there is a similarity to the song I suggested and the matches but it's often superficial.

For instance I picked a song with a very strong snare drum line. All the suggestions also had a strong snare drum line but wildly different melodies, genre's, tone, etc.

Re: Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

#75
I tried a few of my favorites and the results were... predictable, I guess.

It kind of matches genre, but has no grasp of musicianship or why I might like a track.

And this is a fundamental problem. See Avery Pennarun's brilliant explanation of tracking users, data analysis, and recommendation systems to understand why:

https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201902

Re: Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

#76
post #41

How the hell do you even get access to the entire iTunes catalog?

um, isn't that just the Apple Music paid subscription service, their Spotify competitor? They only advertise ("over") 100M songs though, I'm not sure where the extra 20M come from.

https://music.apple.com/subscribe

Re: Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

#77
Good work! I tried some house tunes. I guess the results were similar but expected something more direct.. a suggestion; since some listens only includes the intro - it would be a good idea to match the first 5-10 seconds in harmonics; probably in the span of 90-180 hz. But I guess that would take a whole lot of new work.. So, anyways - if there's a way to jump in a bit into the song I think it might be beneficial. But after trying a bit more I realized simply that the quality of good productions was more of an issue. Great work anyways!

Re: Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

#79
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This is very interesting, but unfortunately I haven't had the greatest luck in finding new songs I would enjoy listening to. It absolutely finds similar sounding tracks, but it doesn't distinguish which part of the song made it enjoyable. There's no tempo consistency or genre consistency or even main instrument/vocal timbre consistency between recommendations. I think locking one or more of those dimensions would all…

Same here
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