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It is pretty bad for classical composers - groups together completely unrelated, very different people: I typed Monteverdi and the closest neighbors shown are S
by p1esk 3y ago
It is pretty bad for classical composers - groups together completely unrelated, very different people: I typed Monteverdi and the closest neighbors shown are Scriabin, Britten, Poulenc, Faure, Schubert. It does not make any sense.
- drdaeman 3y agoI believe it's pretty bad for just about anything - at least, after a few tests, I haven't found a good example where it, indeed, provides meaningful and useful results. I wouldn't have an issue if it would say "check out what people also tend to listen to", but it's most certainly not "find similar music". I strongly suspect that it has no idea about music whatsoever, and probably falls into same association fallacy as most recommendation systems, basing relationship on co-occurrence rather than any inherent similarity.
- tgv 3y agoI tried Gerald Finzi. It shows Vaughn Williams with and without Ralph, mixes composers with performers, and adds rather unrelated composers. It also adds "Clocks and Clouds". This is either an instrumental trio that creates "epic" music, or a composition by Ligeti, neither of which is in the same category nor has any relation musically to Finzi. And it adds "Yak Bondy", which is inexplicable. I guess it just does things when there's not much data, but that makes it practically useless for discovery.