DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

Did anyone else find "Musicians you love listen to what you like" pretty difficult to digest?

There's probably a more user friendly way to say that. Cool idea though.

I think this is a really neat idea. I actually know one artist (diplo I think) has started a second SC account just for retweeting stuff he recommends. I have a couple of accounts and am quite particular about the music I favourite (has to be stuff that my followers would also like e.g. No rock music on my EDM account and vice versa). I'm not sure everyone is like this though so it might be difficult to find accounts of artists who favourite music their fans would also like. It leaves an opportunity for you to do some sort of curation of artists with a good history of favouriting.

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Is the site open source?

Please consider linking to something informative, not just a page with a huge picture where they apparently spent more time on the 3d effect than the actual usability of the site, you can't click on anything, it's just....weird.

I'd be skeptical. Often musicians left to make the music they want to make make stuff nobody cares about. I think of the Gerry Rafferty album City to City which is all hee haw music that sounds the same except for the hit tracks.

I like this concept, but you need some sort of automated filtering. My first track (because hypem liked it) is a cat purring.

Plug but it's a useful one: run the tracks through the SCAnalyzer http://labs.echonest.com/SCAnalyzer/index.html and filter for speechiness and duration. If you get a SO ID, you'll also know the artist via fingerprinting and you can do more filtering at that level.

Ok idea, but didn't really work for me. I follow quite a few artists on soundcloud. I have several hundred likes. Most of the time, I'm not into the music the artists I follow like. It's simply too all over the place. I clicked next 6 or so times but I didn't like any of the songs given to me.

I made a slightly different take on this: http://likesorter.herokuapp.com/#

It shows me in a table my likes and then allows me to see (in table form) the likes of artists I follow. Being able to sort my tags, plays, and song likes, I get more signals on whether I might actually like the song.

Music discovery is a really tricky problem. It takes roughly a minute each song to know whether I like a song or not. There's almost too many microgenres to keep track of (I like tech house but not trap house). My tastes are eclectic: you'll find cheesy songs right next to the hippest coolest disco funk track. The artists I follow probably have similarly eclectic tastes.

Nice work, I did pretty much the same thing about one and a half years back [1]. Didn't know it's still running [2], haha. I built it because I liked Favematic [3], but thought it didn't have enough "radio" like functionality.

I like your visual design better though, it's way cleaner. Also the track is better presented, but then again there were no pictures for tracks when I started.

Edit: Oh and btw I also had no clue how to describe what it does succinctly ;)

[1] https://github.com/prayerslayer/favsquare [2] http://obscure-basin-1623.herokuapp.com/ [3] http://ascott.github.io/favematic/

Bandcamp does something in this vein which lets you see an artist's recommendations of other artists on the site, but it's much more explicit on the artist's part (choosing to recommend as opposed to a mere "like"). I've found some decent stuff through that mechanism.

I like the idea of it. In fact, as an ex-musician myself i have a few ideas of building something using the Soundcloud API. More work definitely needs to be done in the 'music discovery' space and I am glad you've done something with it :)

Hey, that's great! ...and the first track is an hour-long Boiler Room set. May be you can implemented some kind of filtering feature?

I'm getting a 500 error on Chrome 36 from api.soundcloud.com, are you sure you haven't hit a rate limit on this?

Also, may be it would be a good idea to pre-load next track? Right now skipping works reallllly slow

I don't get it. What does it do?

Awesome. Already found a bunch of cool tracks. Follow lobsterdust for some cool mashups.

A more clear tagline: "Listen to the favorite bands of your favorite bands"

it also suggests my own tracks, I guess you should disregard user's own tracks.

also, you may add a 'mute' option for certain musicians/people, (some are not musician but just friends)

This is a great tool.

I can't believe Soundcloud doesn't already offer this.

Recommended!

I love it! Thanks for this.