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Re:The lie of music discovery algorithms by entropicdrifter on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @12:27PM (#41110963)
I wish I had a music recommendation service built on Pandora's immense dataset of music tags that could build me a playlist that I could link back to whichever music service I happen to be using at the time. I could have it do things like require at least 3 tags in common between adjacent tracks such that it could jump around between 2 dozen genres but the transaction between any 2 given tracks isn't too jarring. It'd also be nice if I could tell it to make a playlist where every song shares one particular tag in common.

Maybe I'll build that. Sure would be nice to have.

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Re:The lie of music discovery algorithms by fantasybuilder on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @01:13PM (#41111612)
The primary advantage of Pandora's algorithm is the human-labelled Music Genome database. I haven't seen any other company do music discovery as well as Pandora, and don't expect that to change any time soon.
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Re:The lie of music discovery algorithms by entropicdrifter on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @06:07PM (#41114596)
Right? I feel like it might be worth licensing access to the Music Genome db and building a small business off of that
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