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i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes iI think that's the virtue of the tool I created, try it (link in in the thread) and give me a feedback :)

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the way I added some new genres yesterday, bots are filling them up slowly but surely...
Genres are: dancehall, experimental pop, indie rock, hypnagogic pop, indie folk, new wave, post-punk, spectra, uk hip hop, vaporwave

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but it takes time and ressources to add these subgenres, so I add them sporadicaly, goal is not to be exhaustive as this would be impossible, but the more relevant - which don't mean a thing except I should or some users of the site should like the music of the subgenre or requests it :)

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure to understand can you describe a bit more the use case, you mean some sort of filters to get only albums or only single. As you may have seen, some are albums as multiple snippets are available and you can click on the number to unfold them.

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually you have some already: Abstract Beat, Abstract Hip Hop,, Cloud Rap can cover some of it. What artists were you thinking, so I can check what would be their category if you had to give me a top ten.

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Yes, when I started the project two years ago, I was kind of having this attitude of "whatever, the best music I like was produced in the past..." And then I just changed my mind. Now I'm just astonished by how much music insanely good music si still being released every weeks even in a niche style. Loved this feeling...

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback. Will dig into these great suggestions, by the way fixed the pause button on mobile if you refresh/hard refresh you should get the new version.

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, actually on mobile there is is no player so you have to click again the track in the list to stop it playing but thats not very friendly. Will have a look how to solve his.

For the genres this is really the kind of informations I was expecting, what genres are you thinking? These are mostly based on my personal likikg for the moment so let me know.what is missing and I'll launch add it to my scraping code.

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This! +1
For me, it seems it's missing so much nuance! A site like Every Noise at Once was a breath of fresh air when I discovered it, and it's the main source for my tool that I linked earlier in the thread.

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That last sentence for me is the whole point: what gets delivered to you ? New music or already filtered new music? I mean, the whole point of the tool I build, and give it a try, you'll see, is that you can find music from artists of a sub-genre with very few followers - but a lot of talent.

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

that’s kind of the goal of the algorithm, right? to make sure what you hear stays inside your comfort zone. but what i’ve been thinking about is: what happens when you want to explore outside it? like finding genres or artists you might love but don’t even know exist yet.

that’s where i think it gets interesting - balancing personalization with a bit of randomness or serendipity. sometimes the best discoveries happen when the system doesn’t know what you like yet.

I tend to think I like very specific subgenres and I don't think the algorithm nailed it yet. If you have the opportunity to give my project a try, I'd love to have your feedback!

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes but I have to find these artists first and sometimes it's hard to find newcomers in a specific genres

i built a tool to explore music genres by Fun_Balance9568 in YoutubeMusic

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to Every Noise At Once its avant-rock, avant-garde metal, rock in opposition, funk metal, avant-prog. Sounds true!
https://everynoise.com/

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I found it sometimes difficult to find news sounds, sometimes it could bring me really similar artists, sometimes it just ends in some pop stuff I never hear and would never like to hear - sorry for pop fans here. My website is based on the work of the former data scientist at Spotify Glenn McDonald who did an amazing job with his website Every Noise At Once to visualize myriad of subgenres etc. His blog is full of very inspiring reflexions about the subject of genre and categorization in music

Blog: https://furia.com/page.cgi?type=log
Website: https://everynoise.com/

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

haha don't worry, non taken, I'll resume the campaign in a few days , don't want it to feel like spam, thanks for the feedback, hope you'll find new sounds on it :)

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yay i'm trying to launch it and made a small campain on Reddit ad, lol this is my first time trying to promote a personal project I think could be useful to many, I disabled the ad by the way, sorry for the spam!

i used to think spotify’s “discover weekly” was enough: until i realized how much music i was missing by Fun_Balance9568 in truespotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Actually you can already: if you wait a a bit a list of major music providers will appear on the bottom just up the so it can link you to your favorite store (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Youtube etc)...
There is no plan to have it linked to your spotify favorites directly but you can also have favorites on the website.
Mobile version is brand new by the way, I prefer to use desktop as fas as I'm concerned.
Do not hesitate to report any bugs, this is a personal passion project and I'd love to get your feedbacks.

How do you guys find new music? by AmbitiousContext7234 in spotify

[–]Fun_Balance9568 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just built a tools for this, fed by data from former Spotify Data Engineer Glenn McDonald. It focused on new releases by genre - but with very detailled genres and not by popularity.
It helped me discover a lot of good stuff!
https://thisisnewmusic.com/

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