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Is there somewhere that describes what this.. does? I love music discovery and am very excited to try this, but I'm very unclear if I should be excited.. what

Is there somewhere that describes what this.. does? I love music discovery and am very excited to try this, but I'm very unclear if I should be excited.. what does it do different than Spotify, and how does it achieve this? Ie, I can create a new playlist, add artists, and Spotify will give me new artists it thinks I should add. I can listen to a radio for any song, artist, album, etc. There's quite a few ways to discover music on Spotify, so I'm feeling the need for more information on how this product differs.

alin23 8y ago
Well, everything this does is enabled by the Spotify API. So there's nothing that I'm doing that Spotify can't do already. The point of this app is to make more easily accessible, some of the lesser known features that Spotify has: • Tuneable Attributes (such as Danceability and Acousticness) which you can adjust to get songs meeting those values • Recommendations by multiple artists (which is something like a Radio, but for more than 1 artist) • Algorithmically created playlists such as - "The Pulse of [genre]"- containing music that is becoming popular but you probably never heard it before - "Intro to [genre]" - an attempted algorithmical introduction to that specific genre • Blends, which are one-time playlists created on the fly based on your listening history and a specific occasion like Workout, Reading, Commute, etc. For example, did you know that Spotify has all these genres in its database: http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html Well, after I found out, I was thinking how could I make it easier for people to find their favorite genres and through that, maybe some favorite songs. So one of the features that Noiseblend has is discovery by genre, which collects your most listened genres and lays them in 3-card view so you can easily find one that you would really like to listen to. By the way, Noiseblend is completely free, just check it out ^_^
- notheguyouthink 8y ago
  Gotcha, appreciate the info! Yea I remember a while back I was looking into the Spotify API and saw those attributes you talked of. Pretty nifty! Appreciate your work! Sad that you're having trouble monetizing off of it.

alin23 8y ago

Well, everything this does is enabled by the Spotify API. So there's nothing that I'm doing that Spotify can't do already. The point of this app is to make more easily accessible, some of the lesser known features that Spotify has: • Tuneable Attributes (such as Danceability and Acousticness) which you can adjust to get songs meeting those values • Recommendations by multiple artists (which is something like a Radio, but for more than 1 artist) • Algorithmically created playlists such as - "The Pulse of [genre]"- containing music that is becoming popular but you probably never heard it before - "Intro to [genre]" - an attempted algorithmical introduction to that specific genre • Blends, which are one-time playlists created on the fly based on your listening history and a specific occasion like Workout, Reading, Commute, etc. For example, did you know that Spotify has all these genres in its database: http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html Well, after I found out, I was thinking how could I make it easier for people to find their favorite genres and through that, maybe some favorite songs. So one of the features that Noiseblend has is discovery by genre, which collects your most listened genres and lays them in 3-card view so you can easily find one that you would really like to listen to. By the way, Noiseblend is completely free, just check it out ^_^

notheguyouthink 8y ago
Gotcha, appreciate the info! Yea I remember a while back I was looking into the Spotify API and saw those attributes you talked of. Pretty nifty! Appreciate your work! Sad that you're having trouble monetizing off of it.