Re:Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
by f1refly on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:19AM
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> But to me this is a feature, not a bug. I could see this or something like it opening my eyes to music I would never possibly have found on my own.
What makes it different from a big "play me a random song" button then?
Re:Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
by mejutoco on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:54AM
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They have some similarity based on the actual music.
> it seems to identify similar tempo and melodic riff
Re:Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
by Dwolb on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:22AM
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It’s a pretty cool idea and gets to a philosophical question really quick “what do people mean when they say they like similar music?”
Era? Artist? Genre? Sound? Tempo?
Personally I spend my time finding similar-era music because I like to hear how sounds evolved.
Re:Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
by zuminator on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:10AM
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Ideally one would like an algorithm to be able to realize,"this person prefers to explore new music from the same era," vs "that person prefers to jump around to different countries," vs "the other person prefers to remix their existing playlists," and thus come up with the optimal degree of novelty for each listener. Or at least let the user set a novelty slider to customize their own experience.
Spotify on the other hand seems to want to send me to the same group of artists and tracks I've listened to before, following some Collatz conjecture type algorithm that eventually converges on the same tuned playlist for that genre, no matter what the starting parameters may be.