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Re:Show HN: Making Your Music Choose Your Desktop Wallpaper by 1011_1101 on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:09AM (#13522310)
"First, finding the lyrics of the song that’s playing, and picking out the key words or themes from it"

I listen to Melodic Death Metal. Some of the themes in this genre are not suited to provide pictures one might want to look at. A blacklist or filter for some keywords could help here.

Would be nice if you could provide more examples for other genres.

Re:Show HN: Making Your Music Choose Your Desktop Wallpaper by hnur on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:29AM (#13522526)
It was a random sampling of songs that I was already playing while I was writing that. All my music is either folk (with a lot of Irish and American folk), rock, or indie. If you like though, you could try it yourself.

The great (or perhaps, not, depending on what you want) thing about the Flickr search is that it picks from a set of curated photos, so it's highly unlikely you'll get an unpleasant one. However since it is picking random pictures from the internet, don't run it where you'd get into trouble if something inappropriate does manage to come up.

Re:Show HN: Making Your Music Choose Your Desktop Wallpaper by rosstex on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:36AM (#13528299)
I'll file that under "user error" :)