Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

Your AI is processing the tempo and beat of the music, its not looking at the lyrics and what the lyrics mean, its not processing any accompanying music videos and its not really factoring in emotion, the mood and events of the day in the locale it comes from.

Another factor, is its not taking into account the limitation instruments had on music before the introduction of the synthesizer and the tech we have available today in order to make music.

There are other websites which also make suggestions and doesn't factor in the above points, so your website is not alone in not really grasping the mood of the song. I'm sure its a limitation of the AI models available to people like yourself today, along with time constraints and other factors including access to data. Just how far do you read into things?

When you see an AI suggest the likes of the Sex Pistol's God Save the Queen with this song, you are then looking at an AI which is intelligent. Quantify the mood of the music, the mood of the country or region during that period of time. Thats a very hard thing to do, and masters of that would be the BBC, simply because as national broadcasters, an extension of the British Military aka MI7, arguably global broadcasters with their world service, you'll realise there are songs which just wont be played when certain events are happening on the ground in regions which would be featured in the news and thus considered inciteful. Its very subtle how manipulation at a national or global level takes place, but it takes place.

However it is also a very difficult song to quantify, as this youtube reaction video sums up nicely. https://youtu.be/5vK1FZO1ybE?t=296

If you know anything about the band, they span many genres, and yet they also their own genre. Truly Prodigious.

https://maroofy.com/songs/1065976170

This seems to absolutely NAIL my case of listening, I'm loving this. Thank you!

I picked a Three 6 Mafia song I used to listen to in my younger years, the particular song I chose has everything in the soundtrack from high hats, to trumpets, several rappers with varying styles of exerting their voices, and a lot of the resultant songs have either high hats or similar sounding trumpets, or similar sounding drums, and in other cases, something about how the artists rap reminds me slightly of Three 6 Mafia's own style. I don't recognize any of the artists suggested, which is a good thing, it basically did what it was supposed to.

Next I picked a song by Bullet For My Valentine, not all the songs are quite nu-metal but that's because the song I chose isn't typical nu-metal (or whatever genre they were...) unlike some other metal bands they dont spend the whole song screaming, they actually do normal singing, so it picked up what to me sound like old school metal bands like Dio, Iron Maiden and so on... So it picks up on how some parts of the song are, which can get you mixed results, so if you want to find a similar artist down to the musical style, pick the most "metal" song you can find by them. This isn't an issue for me since I like some of those artists too, but I would rather get more bands that are more like Bullet For My Valentine, though it seemingly did catch one or two I had not heard of before.

Also tried another metal band Killswitch Engage with the song "My Curse" and it recommended another Killswitch Engage song titled "For You" which honestly, is weirdly close in style and I never noticed that before. Again this one's another metal band, I just wanted to see how it would do.

Lastly, I tried a Spanish reggaeton song, and I was not disappointed. You really did a hell of a job on this.

My only wish is that Apple would hire you / buy out your efforts because I wish this was part of Apple Music, their "suggested music" is awful, and the genre discovery type of thing doesn't always yield artists I remotely care for, I feel more inclined to listen to some of the suggested songs but it sucks you can only give samples and link to the song directly, if you could generate playlists from the results it would be good, this isn't a you issue, its moreso an Apple limitation.