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Very interesting. Learned about Findka in your music recommendation service newsletter.

- I'd like to change how many recommendations I get with each newsletter.

- I'd like to add some music, but it didn't find anything I searched. I could just add a link. That would however link the music with the source/url, which does not make any sense semantically.

- If you don't rate suggestions (because you don't know them), they'll soon appear again. Maybe it would be nice to block them in the current session.

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Thanks for the feedback.

- I'll add an option for this.

- What songs were you searching for? The search feature uses Last.fm for music. They've had pretty much everything I've ever searched for, but maybe they're missing certain categories. I might investigate other/additional search APIs in the future. In the mean time, adding songs via URL is a decent option. The way the algorithm is implemented currently, it won't make a difference, and eventually I'm planning to add a cron job that'll go through the URL items and classify them as the correct content type and fetch additional metadata (with manual intervention as needed).

- I started working on this today; should be fixed tonight or tomorrow.

- Cool!

- Some swiss german music. However a search for "Not afraid" didn't return anything too... Didn't manage to get any result so far.

- Again: nice.

It's very motivating to get a response this fast and you seem to care about the input/feedback from users. The world needs more of that, thank you. :)

EDIT: My bad, uBlock Origin was blocking requests to ws.audioscrobbler.com. Can search for music now.

Ah, glad to hear it's working now. I was just about to ask you to check the network tab. Also, I pushed an update last night that renames the refresh button to "skip all" and keeps track of which items are skipped, so items won't show up again after you've seen them once (there's another button under Account which will reset the skip history).

Also you're welcome! It's been really nice to actually have some users, a luxury which escaped me in previous startup attempts.

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