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Re: Show HN: Explore related artists on spotify through a network of nodes

#11
How are the relationships determined? Is do those just come directly from the Spotify API? Is there some threshold user here to determine which ones show?

I ask because poking around I noticed what I thought were some strange absences, such as one band not showing a relationship to other bands that share members.

Re: Show HN: Explore related artists on spotify through a network of nodes

#13
post #11

How are the relationships determined? Is do those just come directly from the Spotify API? Is there some threshold user here to determine which ones show? I ask because poking around I noticed what I thought were some strange absences, such as one band not showing a relationship to other bands that share members.

Yeah they come from what spotify considers a related artist, usually 10-15 artists that appear as suggestions

Re: Show HN: Explore related artists on spotify through a network of nodes

#15
Very cool! Couple thoughts - 1. I noticed some artists get added a second time as the network expands, so some de-duplication may be needed? 2. It could be interesting to (optionally) scale the node size or border width with respect to the node degree.. In particular for the nodes that were clicked on (and thus, have their degrees inflated).. this way it would be easy to spot artists that have a lot of connections just based on who else is currently displayed.

Re: Show HN: Explore related artists on spotify through a network of nodes

#17

This is neat! It gets a bit too cluttered when I'm just trying to look at new artists though, maybe make a click listen to the artist, but maybe double click to 'expand' them? Good stuff either way!

Seconded (on all counts). This is a really huge UI improvement to be able to see genre tag and quickly hear a sample. I like eatwater123's idea of double click to expand, or perhaps just give the option to unexpand a node?

Mine got overcluttered and started to loose its marbles failing to find an equilibrium. Apart from that it's great.
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