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- Gehinnn 6y agoIt's great to see modern software engineers dealing with classical music! It would be amazing if spotify could put some more love into their gigantic collection of classical recordings. Their autoplay feature often changes the piece in between movements, which is a torture. Some database for navigating through all the works of a composer, sorted by significance would also be very helpful to discover new pieces. I would also love to see more innovation in score management/recognition etc. Like seeing the score while you listen to a recording or being able to compare different recordings at a given bar. You could even teach music lessons if you can use it to easily compare home made recordings with professional ones.
- te_chris 6y agoSpotify overall would be hugely improved if we could just filter and navigate by labels, for electronic and particularly for Classical.
- mhh__ 6y agoI'm pretty sure they even have the data somewhere anyway, there was definitely a "Here are your stats for [Duration of time]" thing with subgenres and similar.
- zwegner 6y agoYou can at least search by label in Spotify, using "label:X" as a search term. Not perfect but it's better than nothing...
- fladrif 6y agoI've come across this in the past that worked really well til the integration with spotify broke and I didn't try and fix it. https://getconcertmaster.com/ https://getconcertmaster.com/
- adamors 6y agoCheck out ConcertMaster for Spotify and Concertino for Apple Music. They have pretty good database of classical music that acts as an overlay for Spotify/Apple Music, essentially fixing the tags for a lot of composers/works. The data is also available separately at https://openopus.org/ https://openopus.org/
- Gehinnn 6y agoWow open opus is what I have been looking for for a long time! Thanks! This is what I once tried to build, but stopped as I encountered too many unknowns: https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/fxsg8s/discussion_score_recording_synchronization/ https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/fxsg8s/disc... If open opus could be extended with such kind of metadata, that would be incredibly valuable.
- schnable 6y agoThis is great. Anyone know of something similar for jazz? Being able to see the full personnel of recordings and explore based on that would be amazing (actually it would be cool for rock too).
- splatzone 6y agoAre you familiar with the Musicbrainz database? [1] What features (if any) are missing that would make it more useful for you as a listener? I'm not affiliated with them but I'm interested in building apps in this area, to make art and music easier to explore and navigate [1] https://musicbrainz.org https://musicbrainz.org
- schnable 6y agoNope haven't seen it. If the data is reasonably complete, it looks great.
- atombender 6y agoI tried out ConcertMaster, and I really like the ability to see works organized by type. But the database seems very, very small? There's almost no baroque or renaissance music here beyond the big names like Bach, Biber, and Vivaldi, for example.
- tityrus 6y agoAre you familiar with Idagio (https://app.idagio.com/ https://app.idagio.com/)? Superior to Spotify across every dimension for classical music.
- tityrus 6y agoIt even has the recording comparison feature you are dreaming of!
- Gehinnn 6y agoThat is very cool. Now I'm missing the feature to compare recordings at a given bar! And to see the score from imslp :D edit: Just applied there for a job. I'm curious what they will say.
- dalu 6y agoAwesome. If you'd received money for leads you'd earned your provision now ;)
- atombender 6y agoIdagio looks pretty awesome. Do you know who's behind it? My only complaint so far is that they claim that one of the reasons for creating Idagio is that the main streaming services are track/album-oriented, implying that Idagio does this better. But if I go to an Idagio album (here [1] is a random example), there are just tracks. If I view the same album at Apple Music, the album is nicely divided into works [2], and also annotates each track with the composer. I do love the ability to browse by work and find matching recordings, though. [1] https://app.idagio.com/albums/r-strauss-and-brahms-orchestral-works-live https://app.idagio.com/albums/r-strauss-and-brahms-orchestra... [2] https://i.imgur.com/d3sNrnc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/d3sNrnc.jpg
- Gehinnn 6y agoI guess they have the metadata - if you click on the work [1], you get only the tracks that are part of it [2]. Idagio seems to be a company located in Berlin! [3] [1] https://i.imgur.com/hAe8ZSk.png https://i.imgur.com/hAe8ZSk.png [2] https://i.imgur.com/EGkTwSD.png https://i.imgur.com/EGkTwSD.png [3] https://about.idagio.com/jobs https://about.idagio.com/jobs
- shannifin 6y agoThe worst is using free spotify and you get an ad between the third and fourth movements of Beethoven's fifth... So agonizing
- theobeers 6y agoA low-tech option is to keep at hand a copy of Morgenstern and Barlow’s Dictionary of Musical Themes.[0] Listen for a central theme in the piece that’s playing, search for the sequence of notes assuming that it’s in the key of C major or minor, and voilà. There used to be a website that offered a search function for this work, but it went offline some time ago.[1] I really miss it (though I own a printed copy). [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Musical_Themes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Musical_Them... [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160310085832/http://www.multimedialibrary.com/barlow/index.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20160310085832/http://www.multim...
- prvc 6y agoPeachnote may also be used for the same purpose, but its usefulness is much diminished by their limiting of the length of search queries.
- kzrdude 6y agoLow-tech but but requires some high-end ears
- theobeers 6y agoThat’s true. I think a lot of people learn solfège in primary school, but then it’s “use it or lose it.”
- bingerman 6y agoThe quality of general music teaching in schools varies wildly, and I'm afraid the average experience is not too helpful. As usual, some countries are better than others. Personal anecdote from a medium sized generally pretty average school in Finland: we were never expected or required to know anything about music, the lessons in primary school were just listening the teacher play some simple melodies with piano (we weren't allowed to even try that precious instrument), "singing" random stuff (it was more like shouting, there were never any exercises or guidance), and occasionally listening some pop cds, no exams of any kind (which meant music was our favourite subject after physical education, drawing was pretty popular too).
- ateng 6y agoGreat stuff! It might look even better if you use a serif typeface such as Plantin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantin_(typeface) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantin_(typeface)
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoHell - this is another hardware piece I would say easily has a market. I think I just found a theme in HN ...
- scrozier 6y agoGb major. This Chopin guy is just showing off now.
- yesenadam 6y agoI believe Nicolas Slonimsky may have invented playing Gb Chopin with an orange, but I could only find a defunct audio link for that. This was the best video version I could find of the Black Key Etude in Gb played with an orange (much better than the numerous Lang Lang versions online) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4R65XtfQY&t=42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4R65XtfQY&t=42
- p5a0u9l 6y agoVery cool! Fascinating to read and find soon many commonalities with the author. * Works in tmux, builds currently playing into status bar * As an engineer, prefers classical music Only suggestion, I might try to find a way to make the updates asynchronous, not periodic. If the endpoint were checked in a tight loop, you could trigger the update on change.
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- thisrod 6y agoThe classical music app that I want is surtitles. I.e, your phone figures out what is being sung on the radio, and displays an English translation of the lyrics.