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Re: Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

lakomen wrote: post #41

I have to be honest, Spotify is not a source of music for me. If it were for Soundcloud, but ultimately I'd like to discover new tracks and songs on my own. Where's the fun in machine doing it for you?

How do you discover new tracks on soundcloud?

Re: Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you

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Post by rutierut »

lakomen wrote: post #41

I have to be honest, Spotify is not a source of music for me. If it were for Soundcloud, but ultimately I'd like to discover new tracks and songs on my own. Where's the fun in machine doing it for you?

I get the craziest recommendations from the YT algo. Some vinyl-only release a dude ripped with 687 views, 2 comments, and impossible to buy anywhere.

I would never be able to find that stuff on my own.

Re: Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you

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Post by fridrikn »

rutierut wrote: post #43
lakomen wrote: post #41

I have to be honest, Spotify is not a source of music for me. If it were for Soundcloud, but ultimately I'd like to discover new tracks and songs on my own. Where's the fun in machine doing it for you?

I get the craziest recommendations from the YT algo. Some vinyl-only release a dude ripped with 687 views, 2 comments, and impossible to buy anywhere. I would never be able to find that stuff on my own.

Xarabass is my favourite YouTuber rn, been on a French touch kick lately and a lot of The eternals /Vinyl Fever stuff has been super underground but he’s always got some new stuff.

Re: Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you

#45

Post by laserbeam »

crucialfelix wrote: post #38

If you say music discovery then I expect to discover things I don't know. Currently this is only offering new releases by artists in playlists. I understand that via the API you can't get access to their whole graph and recommendation engine. Currently when I like something I go to "artist radio" or "song radio" to find new things. For a better discovery tool you need to use data from outside of Spotify

You actually have access to some pretty powerful search queries. Only a subset of them are used in the default client. You can search by energy level, by danceability, if songs are more likely to contain lyrics...

However. If the goal of this is to not miss out on artists you already know... Then it's simply a competitor to the "release radar" weekly playlist.

Re: Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you

#46

Post by atoav »

crucialfelix wrote: post #38

If you say music discovery then I expect to discover things I don't know. Currently this is only offering new releases by artists in playlists. I understand that via the API you can't get access to their whole graph and recommendation engine. Currently when I like something I go to "artist radio" or "song radio" to find new things. For a better discovery tool you need to use data from outside of Spotify

I mean why not try to find the band on the musicbrainz database, figure out what the band members are and look for other projects they did? That would be a start.

Or finding similar bands from a similar time and area

Re: Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you

#48

Post by solarkraft »

laserbeam wrote: post #45
crucialfelix wrote: post #38

If you say music discovery then I expect to discover things I don't know. Currently this is only offering new releases by artists in playlists. I understand that via the API you can't get access to their whole graph and recommendation engine. Currently when I like something I go to "artist radio" or "song radio" to find new things. For a better discovery tool you need to use data from outside of Spotify

You actually have access to some pretty powerful search queries. Only a subset of them are used in the default client. You can search by energy level, by danceability, if songs are more likely to contain lyrics... However. If the goal of this is to not miss out on artists you already know... Then it's simply a competitor to the "release radar" weekly playlist.

Hey, cool. I wonder why companies love to dumb down their recommendation engines to the point of them being barely useful when they could just let me tell them what I'm looking for.

Re: Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you

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Post by solarkraft »

selectodude wrote: post #26
shibel wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MusicButler dev here. Even though you didn't sign up for the paid plan, I appreciate the mention and the compliments! And to /u/bartproost - good luck with your new adventure! Your note on monetization reminds of myself 4 years ago when I'd just started with MusicButler. Luckily I didn't make any promises about it being free forever because, well, hobby projects have associated costs too.

I was curious about the service (I'm not against paying for stuff and MusicButler supports Apple Music) but nowhere on the website does it tell me how much it costs.

I agree with this. I don't mind paying a fair price, but I need to know what the price is before I invest any time bothering.
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