Appropriate that it seems to be coded in ColdFusion, a mostly-forgotten programming language.
Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before
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#42The problem with these "never heard before" apps (there was one prior... I can't recall the name) is that they effectively end up just playing musical spam. If you look around at the bottom of the barrel you have all these horrible companies that have either purchased rights to songs, or recorded cover versions, all under the guise of being the real thing. It's basically the Walmart DVD bin, or the "Just like CK One"…
Maybe a better approach would be, instead of the songs that nobody has listened to at all, show us the songs that have been played 1-10 times, or 1-20, or 10-20, or...
Might help weed out the worst of the worst, while still helping to discover something that is mostly unknown.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it was claimed that House of Cards was the results of machine learning and figuring out that the majority wanted Kevin Spacey and a political drama. Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity. If the algorithms are actually any good, they should lead to more, not less, diversity. The algorithms would be able to detect that enough people want to watch a Kung-Fu thriller set in medie…
> If the algorithms are actually any good, they should lead to more, not less, diversity. The algorithms would be able to detect that enough people want to watch a Kung-Fu thriller set in medieval South India starring Summer Glau to be viable They don't want "viable", they want blockbuster. When a film in a series makes only half a billion it's seen as a failure and people are called in to make the next one a success…
>They don't want "viable", they want blockbuster.
They want predictable profit. If machine learning will allow producers to make better predictions on niche market - they will go there too
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#44This is cool. One of the songs I got was from a boy's choir going back to the 1500's, and Johann Bach was a Cantor of it. Very niche, but was gorgeous to hear.
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#45The problem with these "never heard before" apps (there was one prior... I can't recall the name) is that they effectively end up just playing musical spam. If you look around at the bottom of the barrel you have all these horrible companies that have either purchased rights to songs, or recorded cover versions, all under the guise of being the real thing. It's basically the Walmart DVD bin, or the "Just like CK One"…
Not necessarily small labels but the subreddit "listentothis" has been my source of interesting music for a while now. Its aim is new / overlooked artists. There is a "radio" like station as well which plays each submission in turn.
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#46Why nobody listens to these songs? Either crappy songs or failed marketing. Or both.
Sometimes the songs are crappy or the marketing sucks, but other times, the music is just a little too far ahead of its time. The Velvet Underground and Nico is the classic example of this - by all accounts (critical and commercial) it was a complete flop when it was released. The subject matter was so controversial that many radio stations banned it. And, it was barely reviewed
Then, a decade went by and the world caught up. All of a sudden, positive reviews started coming in and the album started selling. Today, every music critic that matters has the Velvet Underground and Nico on his/her list of best albums ever.
I can't claim that the marketing sucks - Andy Warhol was significantly better at self promotion than I am. The music most certainly does not suck. About the only thing that sucked was the timing!
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#47The problem with these "never heard before" apps (there was one prior... I can't recall the name) is that they effectively end up just playing musical spam. If you look around at the bottom of the barrel you have all these horrible companies that have either purchased rights to songs, or recorded cover versions, all under the guise of being the real thing. It's basically the Walmart DVD bin, or the "Just like CK One"…
Not necessarily small labels but the subreddit "listentothis" has been my source of interesting music for a while now. Its aim is new / overlooked artists. There is a "radio" like station as well which plays each submission in turn. https://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis http://radd.it/r/listentothis/music
Since Bandcamp does not have a "random song" feature, I built a page that will let you hear a randomly selected album. I have a scraper that runs nightly to pull newly added albums, although it's not perfect (e.g., I never clean up deleted albums, but that's hardly ever been a problem). I call it Randcamp: http://dx3x.com/randcamp/
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#48I feel the pain for many musicians that release tons of music and nobody ever listens. I release music for fun from time to time and I only got traffic on my I See Fire Drum & Bass Remix because I added (Hobbit End Credit Song) to the title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__d0M400nM But if you think you can just put something up on Youtube or Soundcloud and get famous and rich you certainly should do a reality chec…
Good track - you used a really classic break, the track is well recorded and it all works out well. Heck, you didn't even overcompress the hats!!
It's very interesting how as electronic music has evolved, the way we describe genres has evolved. In the mid-90s (when my friend Dean was a drum n bass DJ and I played acid), the genre you make would have been called breaks. Breaks were great because if you lived in a house city (like I did), you could mix in some breaks and the pea soups would blend nicely...I don't know if you've ever tried to play house music for two hours, but after about thirty minutes, I was so bored that I wanted to leave the party. Anyways, I played techno, so that is likely just the techno attitude...:)
Drum n bass was a little faster, the breaks would get cut up significantly more, there were more dynamics in the drum mix, and the bass lines were so thick that your kidneys would rattle.
Around the early 2000s, it seems like drum'n bass, jungle and breaks all merged into one. I wish that I was still involved in electronic music - it would be nice to still have a sense of how the music was evolving!!
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#49The problem with these "never heard before" apps (there was one prior... I can't recall the name) is that they effectively end up just playing musical spam. If you look around at the bottom of the barrel you have all these horrible companies that have either purchased rights to songs, or recorded cover versions, all under the guise of being the real thing. It's basically the Walmart DVD bin, or the "Just like CK One"…
I just tried it. The first song was obscure normandic trumpet music, the second was indian pop, and the third was an opera. Didn't come across any musical spam, unless the indian song was a cover.
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#50Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149839 A year ago and still, 4 million songs unplayed? Color me skeptical that they are updating thier list.
I don't think they are updating their list very much. I've certainly gotten things on Forgotify that Spotify gives one bar of popularity instead of zero.