Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor...
by bobajeff on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:22PM
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Sounds like you made a little Music Genome Project (by Pandora) like system. Lately I've been thinking about building something like that using machine learning and the hopes that it would scale better than Pandora's effort did.
Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor...
by eppsilon on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:32PM
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What's the name of this crawler software? Is it open-source?
Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor...
by JohnFen on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:15PM
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It's a freeware script that I picked over a decade ago. I don't remember where I got it or what it's called, though. I'm not able to access the server it's on at the moment, but I'll comment here once I can.
I can't speak to Spotify, but many years ago I picked up some agent software that does a rough analysis of the music I enjoy, then crawls the web looking for music that resembles it. I use that for recommendations.
The software is a bit crude in its analysis, but I think that's a feature, not a bug, because it ensures that in the mix of music that I certainly will like are random tunes that I would never have thought to listen to, and often those turn out to be gems.
Most of the music the crawler finds is from indie artists that aren't well-known at all. When I find a new one that I enjoy, I make it a point to seek them out and buy their music directly from them.
Anyway, this has been my solution for about 15 years now, and it works great for me!