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Author here, if anyone's interested I'd be glad if you'd give it a try. Some preemptive answers: > How is music selected? Randomly from the first two pages o
by rendaw 4y ago
Author here, if anyone's interested I'd be glad if you'd give it a try. Some preemptive answers:
> How is music selected?
Randomly from the first two pages or so of the top lists. They're scraped very gently daily, so if you listen to everything you'll get yesterday's tops, etc.
> Why no recommendation algorithm?
Piggybacking off work hosting, I only have like 2gb of storage. Preventing manipulation seems hard, and I know nothing about recommendation algorithms.
> It'll take forever to find new music listening to whole songs.
I'd like 30s samples (maybe a few seconds from different parts of the song) too, but this was easy to implement. It's just supposed to be better than manually clicking through the player on the front page. Basically you'd put it on (like the real radio) while you do other things.
That said, I typically find one or two amazing albums a month, and probably a handful of decent albums a week. After disabling a few genres locally, songs I dislike enough to skip only come on rarely.
> Is this ethical?
It's designed so you never listen to a song more than once and subsequent plays must be done through the Bandcamp site. And I think most artists would like more exposure.
> Texas isn't a country (yet)
The locations provided by Bandcamp seem to be free text, including some nonsense.