Music-Map – Find Similar Music

Post by roydivision » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 12:24 PM UTC

jefc1111 wrote: post #73

roydivision wrote: post #64

I realised recently that most media recommenders don't work for me because they are based on genre. If you like The Watchmen film, you're sure to like Marvel films because they're also action, and based on comics. We see you listened to Pearl Jam a lot, you're going to get a kick out of Nirvana. That's just not how I work. I like _good_ stuff, I don't confine myself to genres, I'll go anywhere if it's half decent. I…

I am like this also. It's tricky though because I think people hear 'quality' in different ways. Some people focus on lyrics, some like cultural identity, some people are probably responding at a more 'primal' level, i.e. just to the pure energy / emotion. But I do think it is different for everybody and does bear some relation to the individual's level of musical awareness and how much time and effort they invest in…

Post by 2big2fail_47 » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 12:46 PM UTC

tern wrote: post #25

Wow! Music recommenders come up every once in awhile on HN and they're almost alway unusable for underground music. Aside from not recognizing some of the names I tried, this one does quite well. It just needs quick links to listen to examples and it'll already be more useful than Spotify, Apple Music or Last.fm. Some test cases I used: Logic1000, Tessela, Piezo, TSVI, Two Shell, Caterina Barbieri, Schacke, Amnesia S…

Post by wavemode » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 1:14 PM UTC

Juliate wrote: post #59

wavemode wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my personal experience I gave up on Pandora. It was regularly suggesting me music that wasn't at all similar to the song I started on. In fact it was consistently worse at finding me similar music than just plain Spotify radio (or playlist enhancer) and/or YouTube Music radio. Contrast Chosic (which is free) - its recommendations are configurable and usually hit the mark much better: https://www.chosic.com/playlis…

Or maybe the similarities were just not in the perspective you expected? (two songs in widly distant genres/production styles can still be very similar on rythm, tonality, chords, tension, progression, structure, etc.)

Post by redler » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 2:22 PM UTC

jefc1111 wrote: post #75

dieselgate wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why "quality" radio can be so powerful: it's not uncommon for DJs to curate a set based on "songs with the same musician" or "original song and remakes/samples from the original" and the like. Not that it's guaranteed to be "good" stuff but at least unique and more memorable in my experience

Any recommendations? I listen to BBC 6 Music a lot. Tried various others but nothing really 'stuck'. Always fun to have a fly around on https://radio.garden also. KEXP have some great performances on youtube, I should try listening to the radio station probably. Although saying that, neither 6 Music or KEXP (or others I have tried) seem to go quite obscure enough for me. i like pop / rock / indie but also experimenta…

Post by _sys49152 » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 2:51 PM UTC

at_a_remove wrote: post #26

djbusby wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Somgs-like-this-song is the thing I wanna find.

I have found this to be terrifically difficult. I went to the trouble of going through Tom Waits' discography to find something similar to "Alice," without luck. Some of my best mixes take years to create. The problem, to me, breaks down into three separate difficulties, perhaps three and a half: First, if the Music Genome people are correct, the number of variables (if you will) is quite large, creating an enormous…