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Re:Show HN: Mixlist by daveidol on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:09PM (#42807568)
Love the idea, although I feel like the playlists generated aren't... great. For me it was grouping things in a pretty odd way that didn't make sense (e.g. Bob Marley under a "punk" playlist)
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Re:Show HN: Mixlist by JansjoFromIkea on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:16PM (#42807620)
Last time I checked Spotify's genre categorisation system was really weird so that doesn't surprise me.
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Re:Show HN: Mixlist by dogancan on Thursday January 23, 2025 @03:21PM (#42807670)
yeah, exactly. Artists genres are weird and the algorithm uses a weighted system to determine the clusters. But you need to try a couple of different options to get what you want.
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Re:Show HN: Mixlist by dr_kiszonka on Friday January 24, 2025 @01:40AM (#42811031)
MusicBrainz and LastFM have much better genre information and on a track level, IIRC. Their APIs are free, I think. You could use them to look up genres.
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Re:Show HN: Mixlist by dogancan on Friday January 24, 2025 @11:41PM (#42819553)
yes will integrate more genres in the feature. especially apple music even have song genres, whereas spotify only has artist genres.
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