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

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Post by r3trohack3r »

bartproost wrote: post #17
r3trohack3r wrote: post #7

Very cool! Will spend some time with this! I've been disenfranchised with algorithmic recommendations. It's lead me down the RNG path of music discovery. I built Audile to simulate the old feeling of walking into someone's basement, thumbing through their vinyl collection, and finding all sorts of weird and interesting music: http://audile.app/

I miss those times too! I probably spend an hour a day on the hunt for new music, which used to be a much more social activity for me than it is now. Is audile basically randomizing Deezer's entire library?

Yeah, Deezer uses integers for addressing their albums. This is literally Math.random() on top of their library implemented with a cloudflare function.

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

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Post by lawlorino »

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

> For a better discovery tool you need to use data from outside of Spotify

I hope it’s ok to do a bit of shameless self promotion here on HN. I shared my open source Reddit Playlists project here as a Show HN post recently which aims to do exactly what you suggest by using Reddit posts.

The idea is pretty straightforward - Each week ~100 music subreddits are scraped for the most popular posts in the last week, and then a Spotify playlist is compiled with the tracks have been posted. Each playlist updates automatically every Sunday.

The main project page with a link to all the playlists is here: https://jameslawlor.github.io/reddit-playlists/

Code on Github: https://github.com/jameslawlor/reddit-playlists

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

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Post by bartproost »

sdwr wrote: post #30
bartproost wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Your jukebox prototype looks cool as well. I like the idea of playing songs over users's Spotify instead, will explore that idea, thanks! I think you're right re: Spotify's built-in song discovery. Brew.fm's concept as is now would be easy to copy for Spotify, they'd be crazy not to if enough people seem to find value, and I'd love it if they do. A way to properly differentiate would probably be by serving a…

It has some rough edges, but I'm still pretty proud of it. The first time it just worked, and people were all adding songs to the playlist at once was magical. I could totally see Brew.fm working for hardcore discovery. People who are in the music industry or are really serious about finding new stuff. Choose who to follow, see who's released what every day. The really amazing thing would be being able to see what's…

Yes we are. Feel free to DM me if you'd like to chat

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

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Post by throwaway874839 »

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'm in the same boat. In my experience, fellow human beings are the best source of recommendations. I constantly get great recommendations from a few friends and family members (I have to admit, maybe I'm lucky).

This is actually what prompted me to create https://digs.fm - I wanted an easy way to see what music my friends digged lately (something like Goodreads, but for music).

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

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Post by thi2 »

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.

> 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...

I've looked at the API reference [1] and couldnt find any of the stuff you mentioned, am I looking in the wrong place?

[1](https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...)

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

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Post by xwowsersx »

bartproost wrote: post #4
xwowsersx wrote: post #3

Nice tool, I will definitely give this a try. A couple notes on the first user experience: I clicked on the example and it took quite some time to load (maybe you're getting a lot of traffic currently?) and before it did I saw zero values for the genres and such. A player appeared at the bottom and wasn't sure what to expect, but I tapped the play button and nothing happened (I'm on Chrome on Android).

Thanks this is great feedback! I'll add a loading state to avoid 0 values, and will look into the load time.

hey I just spent some time using this and found quite a few songs from artists I would've other missed which is great. I have some feedback on a couple visual items. Let me know if there's some way I can send to you directly.

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

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

Congratulations on the launch!

I have a suggestion for your next iteration, 'Lyric based music playlist' i.e. Songs for niche categories like Philosophy; There are people looking for it[1] as current music scene seems to be flooded with Romance/break up songs.

So a tool which classifies using the lyrics and are able to find obscure songs irrespective of the artists could be able to address that need-gap.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/31-lyric-based-music-playlists-... (Disclosure: This is problem validation forum).

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

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Post by shibel »

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.

You’re both right of course. Things have been quite hectic for me. I’ll be sure to update this very soon.
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