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Show HN: Explore music through adjectives

30 points by ollieglass 13y ago

tribe 13y ago
This is really neat! I think it would be interesting to see how the graphs of different reviewing websites compare. did you test it with any other sites and compare recommendations?
- ollieglass 13y ago
  Thanks! Not yet, I'd love to try it with other sites and types of reviews.
ollieglass 13y ago
I wrote Akin To to scratch a personal itch - I find music recommendation systems really boring. I search for John Coltrane, they all recommend Miles Davis. That's obvious and uninteresting. I wanted to make a system that could suggest Squarepusher and Steve Reich by using the underlying themes and qualities of the music to make relevant and novel recommendations. This thematic information already exists in music reviews, I've extracted adjectives from them and used them as a way to search, explore and compare album reviews. It kind-of works. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
- rcfox 13y ago
  I searched for "epic", and one of the suggestions was "epic-as-fuck". I'm curious about how this phrase was selected as an adjective. What sort of rules do you use to find adjective phrases? On a side note: is "fuck" very epic, or not very epic? I have no idea...
  - ollieglass 13y ago
    I'm using the part of speech tagger from Python's NLTK to find the adjectives (http://nltk.org/ http://nltk.org/). Sometimes it selects phrases instead of individual words, I'm not using any extra rules to do this. I've left the phrases in because I think they're interesting and informative. Do you agree, or do you find them distracting? Not sure about your side note!
    - rcfox 13y ago
      Given that there are individual ideas that require more than one word to express, including adjective phrases makes sense. I was actually impressed by their inclusion. I did notice a false positive though: "integrity.While" I hadn't heard of the NLTK before. Thanks for pointing me to it!
- 3327 13y ago
  very sweet, are you using Solr?
  - ollieglass 13y ago
    No, just MySQL.
joeconway 13y ago
This is a really nice idea. Thought about making it into a Spotify app or making an API?
- ollieglass 13y ago
  I've not. A Spotify would be a nice feature. Would you use an API?
ihaveasuit 13y ago
Is there not a way to show more than 10 results? Or am I just dumb? (super awesome idea btw)
- ollieglass 13y ago
  You're not being dumb, it's currently limited to the top 10 results.

30 points by ollieglass 13y ago

tribe 13y ago

This is really neat! I think it would be interesting to see how the graphs of different reviewing websites compare. did you test it with any other sites and compare recommendations?

ollieglass 13y ago
Thanks! Not yet, I'd love to try it with other sites and types of reviews.

ollieglass 13y ago

I wrote Akin To to scratch a personal itch - I find music recommendation systems really boring. I search for John Coltrane, they all recommend Miles Davis. That's obvious and uninteresting. I wanted to make a system that could suggest Squarepusher and Steve Reich by using the underlying themes and qualities of the music to make relevant and novel recommendations. This thematic information already exists in music reviews, I've extracted adjectives from them and used them as a way to search, explore and compare album reviews. It kind-of works. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

rcfox 13y ago
I searched for "epic", and one of the suggestions was "epic-as-fuck". I'm curious about how this phrase was selected as an adjective. What sort of rules do you use to find adjective phrases? On a side note: is "fuck" very epic, or not very epic? I have no idea...
- ollieglass 13y ago
  I'm using the part of speech tagger from Python's NLTK to find the adjectives (http://nltk.org/ http://nltk.org/). Sometimes it selects phrases instead of individual words, I'm not using any extra rules to do this. I've left the phrases in because I think they're interesting and informative. Do you agree, or do you find them distracting? Not sure about your side note!
  - rcfox 13y ago
    Given that there are individual ideas that require more than one word to express, including adjective phrases makes sense. I was actually impressed by their inclusion. I did notice a false positive though: "integrity.While" I hadn't heard of the NLTK before. Thanks for pointing me to it!
3327 13y ago
very sweet, are you using Solr?
- ollieglass 13y ago
  No, just MySQL.

joeconway 13y ago

This is a really nice idea. Thought about making it into a Spotify app or making an API?

ollieglass 13y ago
I've not. A Spotify would be a nice feature. Would you use an API?

ihaveasuit 13y ago

Is there not a way to show more than 10 results? Or am I just dumb? (super awesome idea btw)

ollieglass 13y ago
You're not being dumb, it's currently limited to the top 10 results.