Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

How to Find New Music

solfej.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

121–130 of 268 posts

Re: How to Find New Music

#121

Post by crtasm »

thatcat wrote: post #84
fetus8 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got an email address? I've got a question about the successor sites...

win96@H+ mail.ch ; switch chem abbreviation for the subatomic particle it represents. https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle I'm wondering how they make their similar artist connections, tried looking through the code but only found code pulling from a DB rather than how they generate the db.

It was a manually created list of similar artists weighted by users up/down votes on each entry, as I recall.

Linked above but in case you don't see, have a look at https://rippy.site

Re: How to Find New Music

#122

Post by lavezzi »

Uhhrrr wrote: post #76
kamilszybalski wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you build me an app for that?

That is maybe a good idea! If I were going to do it, I'd start by crawling AllMusic and select portions of Wikipedia. But it's easy enough to do it manually for the use case, "I've run out of stuff to listen to by X, how do I get more?"

I had attempted to do this four years ago but had hideous experiences with trying to find someone to assist me with execution.

When I was working on it, it seemed a lot simpler to query the Musicbrainz API for a lot of the information.

Re: How to Find New Music

#123

Post by psadri »

Uhhrrr wrote: post #67

Rather than subjecting oneself to the whims of recommendation engines and random people, I recommend starting with the artists you like: -Find out who they've toured with - this is one of the strongest signals possible -Find out who produced their albums, and check out other albums produced by those folks -See if people in their band(s) have released their own work -Read interviews to find out who their influences ar…

Same could be used for movies - directors, cinematographers, producers. I wonder what else this could be applied to?

Re: How to Find New Music

#124

Post by Polylactic_acid »

voltagex_ wrote: post #118
dorian-graph wrote: post #87

I would add: - Radio stations, especially triple j [1] and SomaFM [2] - Hype Machine [3] with Plug (macOS) [4] - Similar artists (e.g. on Last.fm [5]) - Other artists on the same label (e.g. Ghostly [6]) - Wander through a record store - Search for one of your favourite songs and see what other user's playlists it's on - YouTube chanels (e.g. David Dean Burkhart [7]) - Bandcamp—just wander around, and also check out…

Also note that if you're in Australia with DVB-T reception, Double J and Triple J are on the ABC transponder at ~256kbit MP2 which is the highest quality stream you'll get. (ABC tech, please provide 320kbit AAC, please?)

Opus would be a better tech to pick.

Re: How to Find New Music

#125

Post by mberning »

Going to reddit and asking for music suggestions on one of the normie subreddits is a profoundly bad idea, unless you are just venturing out of your bubble. Same goes for most social media websites. The trick is to find some genre specific or scene specific groups and find your way into it. And that is the big issue - discoverability.

I also strongly believe that Pandora, Spotify, etc. are taking money from artists and/or labels to directly market. It's a shame, because these apps could be awesome discovery tools.

Re: How to Find New Music

#126

Post by voltagex_ »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #124
voltagex_ wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also note that if you're in Australia with DVB-T reception, Double J and Triple J are on the ABC transponder at ~256kbit MP2 which is the highest quality stream you'll get. (ABC tech, please provide 320kbit AAC, please?)

Opus would be a better tech to pick.

It would be, but ABC are (IMO) optimising for hardware decoders in various things.

Re: How to Find New Music

#127

Post by Uhhrrr »

clSTophEjUdRanu wrote: post #112
Uhhrrr wrote: post #67

Rather than subjecting oneself to the whims of recommendation engines and random people, I recommend starting with the artists you like: -Find out who they've toured with - this is one of the strongest signals possible -Find out who produced their albums, and check out other albums produced by those folks -See if people in their band(s) have released their own work -Read interviews to find out who their influences ar…

This doesn't get me out of my bubble. I'm a huge fan of cheesy synthwave and would have never known had Trevor Something - Death Dream not been a freeleech pick on w.cd years ago. Curation + association is the key.

Not necessarily - a lot of musicians listen to stuff which is not obviously similar. Examples I've seen: Billy Gibbons -> Depeche Mode, Robert Plant -> Patty Griffin, Bono -> Frank Sinatra, Lars Ulrich -> Lou Reed -> Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa -> L Shankar -> Stefan Grappelli.

But yes, if you really want unexpected paths, you have to just keep your ear to the ground. The way I discovered I liked Goa music was that I randomly clicked on it while surfing Shoutcast 15 years ago.

EDIT: (of course the disadvantage is that you have to sort through a lot of chaff)

Re: How to Find New Music

#128

Post by rorykoehler »

Uhhrrr wrote: post #67

Rather than subjecting oneself to the whims of recommendation engines and random people, I recommend starting with the artists you like: -Find out who they've toured with - this is one of the strongest signals possible -Find out who produced their albums, and check out other albums produced by those folks -See if people in their band(s) have released their own work -Read interviews to find out who their influences ar…

Support acts are often mismatched. Lots of acts tour with their mates rather than their musical peers

Re: How to Find New Music

#129

Post by sarakayakomzin »

uoaei wrote: post #18
joegahona wrote: post #12

OP: have you ever tried Spotify's weekly Discover playlist? I can't believe how good it's been for me, and I never took to Pandora or similar recommendation methods. Discover has opened me up to bands that were always on the perimeter of my tastes but that I never took the plunge to listen to, and I'm amazed at how Spotify even knows to recommend a deep cut that I'll love from an artist I typically hate. Spotify has…

I have had exactly the opposite experience. I have been pigeonholed for the past 2 years and counting. The structure of my playlists lately have been 25 songs that I've already heard a thousand times in previous Discover Weeklys or Daily Mixes, then 3 songs I haven't heard in a while from artists I know, then 2 actually interesting tracks. The heyday of Discover Weekly for me was 2016. I've heard that they rely much…

I think this could be due to genre bias. There's a new xanax rapper every 60 seconds but fewer folk metal, and the like, partially due to required number of people and overall effort.

Re: How to Find New Music

#130

Post by uoaei »

kamilszybalski wrote: post #69
Uhhrrr wrote: post #67

Rather than subjecting oneself to the whims of recommendation engines and random people, I recommend starting with the artists you like: -Find out who they've toured with - this is one of the strongest signals possible -Find out who produced their albums, and check out other albums produced by those folks -See if people in their band(s) have released their own work -Read interviews to find out who their influences ar…

Can you build me an app for that?

I'd like at least some graph database containing all these entities. Can probably be scraped from the internet, would need to know which ones are highest quality and most comprehensive though.
Post reply on HN