Topic: OT - Music Recommendation Services? (Read 1604 times)

Mysticeti · « **on:** February 06, 2004, 12:56:18 pm »

If I like artists (or CDs) "A", "B", and "C" I'll probably enjoy CD "D".

Are there any services out there that will give me that kind of feedback?

Sometimes when you purchase a CD on-line the site will tell you "People who bought this CD also bought this other CD". Sometimes this is a useful tip but I'm looking for something that takes more albums or artists as input before offering a recommendation.

Thanks.

JimH · « **Reply #1 on:** February 06, 2004, 12:59:53 pm »

This company has technology like that:
http://www.savagebeast.com

I'm not sure how publicly available it is yet.

Mysticeti · « **Reply #2 on:** February 06, 2004, 01:04:52 pm »

Wow! The Music Genome Project sounds fantastic. I can't wait until it's available.

http://www.savagebeast.com/genome.shtml

Hopefully they'll make the data/service available at a reasonable amount.

Thanks for the quick reply!

DougHamm · « **Reply #3 on:** February 06, 2004, 01:39:27 pm »

Quote from: Mysticeti on February 06, 2004, 12:56:18 pm

If I like artists (or CDs) "A", "B", and "C" I'll probably enjoy CD "D".

Are there any services out there that will give me that kind of feedback?

Sometimes when you purchase a CD on-line the site will tell you "People who bought this CD also bought this other CD". Sometimes this is a useful tip but I'm looking for something that takes more albums or artists as input before offering a recommendation.

Thanks.

MusicMatch Jukebox had that ability and it was eerily accurate - but it was based on MMJ users' music databases and usage stats being sent to MusicMatch, not analysis of the music itself. For instance, hile they're quite different in many respects, I found that "People who listen to Deep Purple also listen to Celtic Frost." Go figure. There's always that trade off between privacy of information and the benefits of information sharing.

Allmusicguide (which J River uses for artist info) has a section on similar artists when you look up a particular artist. It's based on style, influences, followers and connections, so the results are a little more understandable than MusicMatch's.

-Doug

Mysticeti · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2004, 02:32:35 pm »

Thanks for the tip.

FYI -- I just stumbled upon this service which attempts to recommend movies:

http://www.whattorent.com/

I think I remember someone saying that NetFlix has a recommendation system as well.

Mysticeti · « **Reply #5 on:** July 22, 2005, 10:16:30 am »

Anyone play around with "liveplasma"? http://liveplasma.com/

Looks pretty slick.

iCamp · « **Reply #6 on:** July 22, 2005, 10:25:39 am »

Audioscrobbler can be used to discover new artists too. Set it up and it records everything you listen to in a site like this. After you've played enough tracks it recommends other artists to try. As an example, here is my recommendation page.

runemail · « **Reply #7 on:** July 22, 2005, 10:43:05 am »

Allmusic and audiscrobbler, yes.

But the recomondations page on AS is very general and is of very little use to me, they only list artists i know before. Its better to find people in your neighborhood, and see what they listen to: http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/M_Mickey/network/
Or just browse groups and forums: http://www.audioscrobbler.com/groups/

also check http://www.musicmobs.com/. Not possible to use with MC at the moment, but that would be great!

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