I'm totally going out on a limb and guessing here - I'm more on the UI/UX side of things so I know nothing low-level about what goes into a building recommendation engine, algorithm, or whatever. But I do know music pretty well, and this feels like it's matching too closely to the technical aspects of the music and not the overall theme/je-ne-sais-quoi that makes a song something you feel.
I tried two of my all-time favorite songs:
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
On the first, I would say it was a total swing and miss - the recommendations had similar elements to Handwritten like strummed power chords, but the vibe was completely off. With Thrice, same thing. The first match was a remaster of the song itself by the band, so of course despite being a "different" track it was the closest possible match. The rest of the recommendations had a similar tempo and more heavy metal riffs (as are common in Thrice's songs), but none of them were songs I would voluntarily listen to.
This is a cool idea and I hope OP if you read this you take the criticsm as it's intended - I'm not trashing the implementation or anything. This just feels like it truly is a robot that can't feel the emotion of a song making me recommendations.
Honestly, thanks for taking the time to give such detailed feedback!
The current model I have isn't as good as I want it to be, and I'm working on a newer one with a different training process as well. This should address some of the shortcomings people have mentioned.
I was really nervous of shipping my v1 with the current model, but thought I might as well share what I have so far with the world, in case someone finds it useful lol.
Hey, no problem! Best of luck going forward. FWIW I almost never try out Show HNs and recommendations on here, the idea really piqued me. I am always looking to find the next new song or artist I love. So that should be a good signal for you. I look forward to revisiting in the future!
I tried two of my all-time favorite songs:
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
On the first, I would say it was a total swing and miss - the recommendations had similar elements to Handwritten like strummed power chords, but the vibe was completely off. With Thrice, same thing. The first match was a remaster of the song itself by the band, so of course despite being a "different" track it was the closest possible match. The rest of the recommendations had a similar tempo and more heavy metal riffs (as are common in Thrice's songs), but none of them were songs I would voluntarily listen to.
This is a cool idea and I hope OP if you read this you take the criticsm as it's intended - I'm not trashing the implementation or anything. This just feels like it truly is a robot that can't feel the emotion of a song making me recommendations.