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Anyone remember back on what.cd the related artists "web" system? That was my favorite way to find music, and since the site's demise, I have yet to find a comparable way of discovering similar artists.

Luckily back then, I started following many of my favorite artists and labels on social media, which sort of created a new wave of recommendations based on what those artists are talking about. It works, but it's not the same as that magical "web" of suggestions.

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Every Noise At Once [1] has a nice web of genres and artists to check out.

From their description: Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 3,883 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2020-01-30. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.

[1]http://everynoise.com/

Damn, that is cool. I looked through some of my favourite genres, and the data looks good.

I came here to say this. It takes a few minutes to understand what you're looking at, but once you dig in, it's a phenomenal way to discover new music. The auto-generated Spotify lists linked from the top are awesome.

the best !

I miss reading the 100 page threads on What.CD about which of the 40 different rips of the White Album was best. Alternatives have popped up, but it saddens me that we lost all of that collective comment history.

I was part of What.CD (and its successors), but if I'm wondering which edition to snatch, I usually search the Steve Hoffman forums [1] and look up the Dynamic Range DB [2].

[1] https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/forums/music-corner.2/

[2] http://dr.loudness-war.info/

I run https://www.music-map.com which might be similar to what you describe?

I have never seen (or heard about) the what.cd related artists web.

Let me see if I can find a video or images about it...

I use music map all the time! It's intuitive, and I've found it pretty accurate as well. Well done.

Just used gnoosic.com for the first time and found a brand new artist! Great work on this, I'm going to continue using it and music map.

music-map is great, thank you for your service :)

Confirming an artist not in the database leads to an infinite redirect for me:

http://www.gnoosic.com/vote_save.php?pstVote=add&pstItem=cv+...

Interesting. I have never seen that happen and can not reproduce it. Anything special about the browser you use? Feel free to shoot me an email then we can figure it out.

You can browse a snapshot of what.cd here: https://rippy.site/

Yes! Completely agree that it was the best and nothing has filled the gap since. Such a shame.

Redacted has filled the gap. Orpheus too. Though maybe the webs aren't as fully developed as WCD's came to be, these sites are definitely maturing in the same way.

https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html

I remember what.cd to be a mythical amazing website with impossible to find invite and then close to impossible to maintain ratio starting from 0. Never got an invite and had to use more sane trackers for finding new music, last.fm recommendations and finding soundtracks for watched video clips/movies etc.

Freeleech was one of my favorite ways to discover new music on What.cd even with a buffer well built I'd go for it anyway just to see if I could find something new I liked.

Yep. Can't replace the passion of music lovers. I posted elsewhere in the thread about finding new favorite music just on a whim when it happens to be freeleech.

The similar artist map is still around on the successor sites of WCD.

Got an email address? I've got a question about the successor sites...

win96@H+ mail.ch ; switch chem abbreviation for the subatomic particle it represents. https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle I'm wondering how they make their similar artist connections, tried looking through the code but only found code pulling from a DB rather than how they generate the db.

It was a manually created list of similar artists weighted by users up/down votes on each entry, as I recall.

Linked above but in case you don't see, have a look at https://rippy.site

Awesome, thank you.

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