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DALL-E for Playlists

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Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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post #10

Well, it only gave me one song: "Internal Server Error". I searched for it on Spotify, but can't find it. Snark aside, great concept; looking forward to trying it when it comes back up.

Trying to imagine what the song "Internal Server Error" sounds like because when I typed that into Spotify it just repeated the same back to me. Then my screen bulged out with a screaming face. Then went back to normal. Weird.

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

#23
Neat idea–Spotify seems to be proliferating a massive amount of playlists for every conceivable mood, genre, decade, country, etc in an attempt to seemingly capture what this tool can do automatically. I think a lot of the Spotify "official" playlists are actually partially or completely algorithmically driven as well based on your personal listening history.

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

#25
OP HERE! Solved the hugging to death issue. Reached the Spotify 11k playlist limit. Deleting old playlists and the site should be working as intended now.

THANK YOU whoever posted this!

Currently working on: Fixing the recommendation scoring function. Right now it's giving hit or miss responses. I think the problem is with my cross encoder "reranker" is not doing its job the right way. I'll fix the passages it looks at when re ranking based on the query.

Also getting rid of the input box animation, lol. I've gotten flack for that on Reddit too. You should have seen the old site. It still renders that HTML on mobile.

Taking any and all questions!

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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post #15
post #10

Well, it only gave me one song: "Internal Server Error". I searched for it on Spotify, but can't find it. Snark aside, great concept; looking forward to trying it when it comes back up.

I find it hard to believe that some indie techno band _hasn't_ made a song called "internal server error".

https://open.spotify.com/track/2FF1ROYkhiRcU6zJSkBnBU is exactly what you're looking for

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

#27
post #7

Neat idea for a project, and kudos for getting everything up and running! Tried it once or twice, and the results are very hit or miss. "70s african funk without synthesizers" includes some stuff that matches the prompt, like Ofo the Black Company, but also includes more misses than hits: Herbie Hancock, War, Prince, the Ohio Players, and Sly & The Family Stone are all American. Seems like it latched onto "funk" and…

I suspect the training was overfit to certain kinds of music. A bot that's fine tuned with "funk", "70's funk", and other similar music will produce better results.

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

#28

OP HERE! Solved the hugging to death issue. Reached the Spotify 11k playlist limit. Deleting old playlists and the site should be working as intended now. THANK YOU whoever posted this! Currently working on: Fixing the recommendation scoring function. Right now it's giving hit or miss responses. I think the problem is with my cross encoder "reranker" is not doing its job the right way. I'll fix the passages it looks…

Make this an Alexa skill

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

#29
post #3

Definitely a feature to be enabled into Spotify. Kudos!

One thing I wish you could do with Spotify is adjust the temperature of its audo generated playlists. For a certain genre I might want the playlist to rely either more or less on the well known top songs in that genre versus more esoteric choices.

Working on weighted averages for each song feature embedding. This might be the fix for that. Thinking about comparing the query embedding to sentences like "This query relates to musical genres" or "This query relates to the key and modality of songs" etc. This could be add importance to the "popularity" feature I have in my dataset for queries that contain words like "obscure" or "very popular".

Just an idea right now, I'll get to it when I can!

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

#30
This is great. I was a big fan of the beats music service's feature that let you 'mad lib' a sentence like "I am [singing along] [with my bff] [in the car] to [pop music]" and was always let down nothing similar appeared in competing services. This feels like the next step for that kind of feature.

For about a year now I've been eagerly awaiting when this kind of thing will become available for streaming TV and movies. This christmas it really struck me how cool and convenient it would be to be able to ask a smart tv "Hey, throw on a mix of all the good Simpsons and Bob's Burgers holiday episodes." I can't imagine that's far away now, especially seeing this project! Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if at this point the hardest challenge would be somehow launching between different services to specific programs, not building the playlist itself.

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