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Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:16 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #47

> I'm a Data Science grad student looking for a job in the music industry! Hire me! This is the perfect project to garner that kind of industry attention, hope it works out!

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Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by SoftAnnaLee » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:17 PM UTC

Honestly, I'm genuinely impressed. I even searched something that I would think would trip it up, "transgirl puppycore", and it managed to not only give several songs that are extremely on-point but likewise has a bunch of new and interesting music I never would have discovered otherwise.

I genuinely can see this being an extremely useful tool for content discovery; and I really hope the major players will implement your work.

Edit: A link to the playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/03B6UoO679VGxQykFgpUSO?si=...

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by zw123456 » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:17 PM UTC

Very cool work, good luck, hope you land a good job.

I put in "Women Jazz Singers" Not bad, a bit heavy on Nina Simone and had Marvin Gaye, who was great but a dude. Nit picking really. Nice work :)

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by leonidasv » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:18 PM UTC

I asked for a playlist of "how ADHD sounded like" and I can't be more impressed.

I don't have ADHD myself but live with people that do and I think the playlist really captured some of the observed symptoms of the disorder in a musical way.

But what I really found impressive is: searching for "ADHD playlists" in Spotify yields a lot of playlists with lo-fi music for deep focus, not the fast-paced, disorganized, hyperactive songs I got in the generated playlist. That means, the model is capable of discerning what the word "ADHD" means in a profound way, it's not just regurgitating songs that resemble "Spotify playlists with ADHD in their title". Very, very impressive.

For the curious: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3MSryXJ6F1n34JSIPe1iMA?si=...

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by barbazoo » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:21 PM UTC

Love the idea!!!!!

Tried a few softballs, not sure how accurate it is. Example: "Extremely popular pop rock from the early 1990s." [0] It's good music but I wouldn't say those were extremely popular in the 90s. Again, great work and I'll check it out for more obscure searches based on feeling rather than objective information.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ALBHGIxhsspN793KXZq9k?go=...

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by wizofaus » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:27 PM UTC

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Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:28 PM UTC

I wanted to find more "heavy metal with trance-like synthesizers" and didn't really get any good results.

To give the perfect example of what I'm looking for, see Blood Stain Child - Stargazer: https://youtu.be/IjTXeJZM8wg

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by ryanSrich » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

Here's the playlist it generated for "midwest emo songs that feel influenced by radiohead, but also seem a bit dream poppy"

About as accurate as you could be I think.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/44vaFvFLaHvRi9aaYW2Iq1?go=...

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by jdminhbg » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

nlplaylist wrote: post #44

jdminhbg wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d love to know at a high level how you went about implementing this. Is it just using OpenAI’s built-in music knowledge? Did you do any of your own classification?

TLDR: Lots of musical metadata converted into paragraphs and the SentenceTransformers Retrieve & Re-Rank Pipeline.( https://www.sbert.net/index.html ) The sentence embeddings are calculated using a Bidirectional Encoder Representation Transformer (BERT) model. There's a pre-trained model for this network trained on over 1 billion sentences from the internet that is publicly available, (thanks Microsoft) . The model t…

That's awesome, thank you so much for sharing all that. The project is great.

Re: DALL-E for Playlists

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Post by zahrc » Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

Mattasher wrote: post #43

oaththrowaway wrote: post #41

Back in the day there was a project called Tomahawk Player that tied into a service called Echo Nest (which I believe got purchased and shut down by Spotify). For me that was the peak of music discovery. I haven't been able to replicate it yet.

Grooveshark (RIP) had the best music recommendation engine I've ever used.

And listening together was also possible… man I miss grooveshark