Any app that wants my personal info to "connect me" from the get go creeps me out. Spotify already connects me with others. Although I find spotify UI a bit obtuse and their music suggestions moronic. I would be more interested on a mobile platform that connects me with independent artists (aka fresh music)...like Soundcloud combined with music guaranteed to get it right on suggestions not because some computer algorithm but because they have competent curators...Like Calmradio.
Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
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Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#22Finally. It's such a simple idea, I've been waiting for a long while. Is there something like this that takes more profiles into consideration?
That's definitely something we're focusing on more now. Like qnsi mentioned, last.fm does a pretty good job of that -- I've been a fan since high school.
We, SameTunes, have an advantage when it comes to calculating a user's affinity for songs, artists and albums. Last.fm ranks your music by tracking how many times you've played (or "scrobbled") a song, songs by an artist, etc. SameTunes uses additional data Spotify publishes (like position in a created playlist, occurrences in your liked music, etc) to build a more well rounded representation of your music taste in the past and present.
There are definitely features we can, and plan to, add to help better portray this data to a user.
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#23Any app that wants my personal info to "connect me" from the get go creeps me out. Spotify already connects me with others. Although I find spotify UI a bit obtuse and their music suggestions moronic. I would be more interested on a mobile platform that connects me with independent artists (aka fresh music)...like Soundcloud combined with music guaranteed to get it right on suggestions not because some computer algor…
That's totally fair. I wish Spotify gave us more granularity in the data we ask for, I don't think we need the blanket permissions a user has to grant us (as someone who just deleted their Facebook and soon Google accounts, this is really important to me).
We've reached out to a lot of local artists here in Atlanta and hope to use the platform to recommend and share their content to those interested.
Hand curating playlists is also a big feature we've been toying with. That's where something like Apple Music's hand crafted playlists are usually a lot stronger than Spotify's computed playlists.
I haven't heard of Calmradio, it's exactly what I've been looking for! I've resorted to listening to music through a cheap FM radio to try and break out of the algorithm hell Spotify tends to put me in.
Thanks for sharing!
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the embedding idea in specific is quite good and there are several potential approaches! One is, if you let xᵢ be the song vector for user i (whose kth entry is 1 if user i has song k in their library and 0 otherwise). Then you can compute the "overlap" by something like xᵢ ⋅ xⱼ (with some normalization of course!) where ⋅ is the inner product. [0] A simple approximation of this inner product would be to gene…
Brilliant. Through the Spotify API we are given locational and positional data on some music objects. Your proposal to structure songs as vectors opens up a lot more flexibility for storing, weighting, and manipulating that data. The way in which the overlaps are calculated is crucial to our platform, something like feeding the dot product into a weighting matrix would leverage this structure really well. Your propos…
For sure! It’s a cool product (I got two people who messaged me about it this morning, before I even saw it on hn) and it’s pretty fun. Good luck with it! :)
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#25Any app that wants my personal info to "connect me" from the get go creeps me out. Spotify already connects me with others. Although I find spotify UI a bit obtuse and their music suggestions moronic. I would be more interested on a mobile platform that connects me with independent artists (aka fresh music)...like Soundcloud combined with music guaranteed to get it right on suggestions not because some computer algor…
I have to agree with your points. I'm someone who uses Soundcloud because a lot of the genres I'm into are not that popular and the producers have between 500 to 5k followers. Because of this, a lot of them simply aren't on Spotify.
I would definitely use an app that connects me with other people that are into the same niche genre because it's so hard to find people into this music anyway. The cool thing though is that when you do meet someone in the same hard-to-find niche, the friendship is much more stronger.
tldr; OP add SoundCloud support please!
Re: Show HN: SameTunes – A Music Compatibility Platform for Spotify
#26Spent an hour with friends talking about our music because of this :)