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I've got a rather wonky way of doing this. https://github.com/kristopolous/music-explorer

I've been building systems to find new music for 18 years or so. This latest one I've been using since early 2020.

It's really for just me so sorry if the documentation is a little scattered. I'm certainly doing some minor ToS violations all over the place with this thing so I don't want it to get too popular but I'll be happy to clean up the documentation if there's interest

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This looks great - how do you then keep the subset that you want to continue listening to in the longer term? Is there an "extract to my music collection" feature - or is this your music repository?

There's a player with a repl. It puts your scoring in a flat file which you can run simple unix tools on and do with what you wish

There's a bit of Perlis's turing tarpit here but it's intentional

Thank you for sharing this! Looking forward to try it, seems like an interesting idea. My strategy on bandcamp is conceptually similar, albeit manually.

Bandcamp is my primary place for learning about new music. I find following small labels that specialize in a genre to be ideal. Unfortunately, bandcamp doesn't do a great job in helping me keep track of everything, so this is what I do:

1. Bandcamp doesn't have RSS, but I take all the incoming emails and convert them to RSS[1]. I separate out new messages vs new releases. I host my own RSS with FreshRSS.

2. I wrote an app (Camp Counselor [2]) to help manage your Bandcamp wishlist. You can organize, rate, and comment (privately) on your wishlist, along with play directly in the app. I find that my wishlist (which has a few thousand albums on it) is more of a "to do" list. If I get a recommendation, I just add it to my wishlist and will check it out later. Even stuff I don't like stays in my wishlist (with a low rating), to help me remember. I then sort by rating or added at dates, and as I purchase things, they move off my wishlist into my purchase list.

This generally works really well for me, and I continue to explore lots of new and great music every day!

[1] https://blog.line72.net/2021/12/23/converting-bandcamp-email...

[2] https://flathub.org/apps/net.line72.campcounselor

Ah this is very cool.

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