AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project (2022)

Re:AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project... by tclancy on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:21AM (#34442004)

This is unfortunate. A decade or so ago I had a beta for something IIRC was called MusicMatch which was just an executable that could create iTunes playlists based off characteristics of a song in iTunes and it felt like magic. Then Apple bought them, supposedly built it into iTunes but it seemed to simply disappear (DarkSky is experiencing this same phenomenon right now). Does anyone have a recommendation for things like this? Starting a radio station off a song in Spotify works well enough, but it feels like it just selects "People who listen to X also listened to Y" whereas MusicMatch worked off a fingerprint technique that was more serendipitous.

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Re:AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project... by piperswe on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:49PM (#34443239)

Plex can do acoustic analysis on your library and uses that analysis for its recommendation algorithm - I find it works pretty well.

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Re:AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project... by jdminhbg on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:04PM (#34446323)

> Then Apple bought them, supposedly built it into iTunes but it seemed to simply disappear (DarkSky is experiencing this same phenomenon right now)

The Weather apps in the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS are very obviously re-styled versions of DarkSky. They even rebranded and released the API.

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Re:AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project... by krolden on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:47AM (#34455789)

Why innovate when you can acquire?

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Re:AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project... by tclancy on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:57PM (#34456963)

Huh, I feel like it's lost the bits I actually used. Maybe it's just my specific taste. Thanks for the reply.

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