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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by nemo1618 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:55PM (#25784866)

Oh, another side project I'm working on: a "high touch" music recommendation service. Like Pandora, except your recommendations are chosen by a real person instead of an algorithm. Downside: you get far, far fewer recommendations; upside: you can tell your recommender exactly what you want, exactly what you did or didn't like about a track, etc.

Beta-testing it with some friends and family now; we'll see if it grows into anything real!

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by maxwelldone on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:56PM (#25785971)

This sounds very cool. I recently thought of another approach for song recommendation due to necessity i.e.: based on how a song sounds. There are genres but they're way too generic. Other methods like similar artists, what else people who've likes a song love etc doesn't always work. Not sure how streaming services recommend but I don't think they do what I want.

I know, how something _sounds_ is subjective but I was thinking something along the lines of how Shazam app does. If they can compute a song signature and compare it against a library, it should be possible(?) to find top 10 closest neighbors.

BTW, I'd love to test your app if that's possible.

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