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check out Spotify if you can, they've made sharing tracks super easy - but suck at the Last.FM bits. As a music junkie I use a few services: Last.FM for the d
by pclark 16y ago
check out Spotify if you can, they've made sharing tracks super easy - but suck at the Last.FM bits.
As a music junkie I use a few services:
Last.FM for the data (on me & friends (but not Facebook friends...))
Spotify for playback and sharing songs to friends (but not Last.FM friends - Facebook friends)
Hype Machine for hot music recently (scrobbled to Last.FM)
The huge weak spot is recommendations. Where do I go for artists like Eminem? I currently use the Spotify related artists page, boy does it suck.
Actually, I also use What.CD for music recommendations..
This is what What.CD suggests for Eminem: http://grab.by/5MLs http://grab.by/5MLs
and this is what Spotify suggests for Eminem: http://grab.by/5MLu http://grab.by/5MLu
Neither brilliant, honestly.
So yes - recommendations - valuable. Powered by my friends, what's hot, and algo for similar. Make a Pandora Radio minus the Radio bit, sounds useful. Maybe a weekly digest of similar artists I'll enjoy based on what I listened to this week.
- chrischen 16y agoI think artist recommendations is a different beast from user recommendations. Recommending similar users is something relatively easy and the main roadblock right now is there not being enough users. But if I go into artist recommendations (as opposed to general new song recommendation and recommending other users), I'd take the same approach and do something much more dynamic than a fixed list of similar artists. So perhaps taking the subset of users who like Eminem A LOT and taking their top tracks under the same genre, merging them (as if you followed them), and providing that as a list of similar trending artists.