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Nice snappy UI. I found a couple of times on iOS that after I'd clicked through to Apple Music, if I returned, the app had somehow stopped being able to play ag
by thom 4y ago
Nice snappy UI. I found a couple of times on iOS that after I'd clicked through to Apple Music, if I returned, the app had somehow stopped being able to play again but this is very well done. I think I would give a boost to song names over bands/albums in the search as I think a fuzzy song match is probably more likely what a user wants than an exact album/band match on something they've not heard of. I'd definitely use a playlist feature that just queues up the top 20 matches in Apple Music, but I don't know what the API looks like. Anyway, only feeding back because it's great.
I can certainly see what the model is getting at each time, and I've not hated any of its suggestions so far, but I've also not stumbled over any new favourites yet. I don't know what kind of features the model is able to learn, I think it might miss one of the things I like most in music, which is not just dynamics, but something that builds tension over time and then blows up. If there are no longer range features like that I'd certainly experiment with them.
I've had a lot of success with Apple's own suggestions (which are admittedly extremely hit or miss), and I've probably grown my collection 1000% in my 30s and 40s after letting music drift away from me in my 20s. There's nothing better than the feeling of a new suggestion and you click through, and there's no artist profile because they're unknown, and they've got like 300 Twitter followers but you love them like a 15 year old. At least once on here I clicked through and found that I was listening to the only song ever recorded by someone, which seemed quite special.