The lie of music discovery algorithms
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The lie of music discovery algorithms
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#3how does it technically work?
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#4how does it technically work?
Looks like OP is harvesting emails more than sharing their (completed) work based on this and their other project https://www.zeynepevecen.dev/
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#5This is great to hear, though I'm curious why photos on your phone / pinterest would be relevant to a recommendation system? Surely the biggest signal would be what Spotify already uses: the features of various relevant factors (your previous listening sessions, your current session, what other similar sessions look like, etc.), that said, their recommendation system is surprisingly terrible given how much easier music recommendations must be versus video, yet YouTube seems to have had this nailed for 15+ years whereas Spotify's "Discover Weekly" is so bad.
> I come up with an idea of generating playlists from images. Images that you shot on your phone yourself, or that you found on Pinterest, or a painting that you really like and feel inspired by.
This is genuinely interesting! Do you send the images to an LLM with a prompt like "generate a list of songs that would go well with this"?
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#6Music has so much power over people!
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#8I don’t see any connection at all between my photos and the music I listen to.
This seems really, really random.
Plus, there is no real explanation on the page as to how this would work, not even from a high level.
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#10Music discovery has never worked for me, for the simple reason it's the lyrics, not the music. I listen to anyone speaking truth, (the truth I believe, of course), and that gives me a wide disjoint range of music, but they are all singing about political social truths. Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, Beyonce, The Stranglers, The Jam, Psychic TV... It's the lyrics, and now today, we finally have the ability to have music discovery with the lyrics, with the intellectual content of the music and not just the dressing.