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cinemachick t1_iy1o1wr wrote

"Angry vocaloid" and "angry Hatsune Miku" only had angry human music, might need a touch of recalibration (although I know Miku's catalog on Spotify is small)

Edit: "Jpop to listen to in the rain" generated a playlist that was 70% English songs, 30% Japanese. The AI seemed to get hung up on the word "rain", most of the English songs had the word "rain" in the title. Overall mood was upbeat and peppy, I was expecting something softer and gentle (like "Honey" from CardCaptor Sakura or a lo-fi playlist.) Maybe the AI has a harder time with non-English songs in general?

Edit 2: "Queer graduation music" - I intended this to be what you'd play before or after a high school graduation with a large queer population. 70% of it was EDM for some reason? Only a couple actually queer artists were included (Ru Paul, Demi Lovato). Also the song "I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks" was in there - I get why the AI would add it in but that one needs to be marked anti-queer in the system

Edit 3: "Rave for preschoolers" mainly had either funk or queer dance music, only about 20% was EDM/Eurodance (and it was far down the playlist.) The songs with lyrics weren't really preschool-appropriate, I was expecting something from Cocomelon or Disney to pop up. 🤷

All of these comments are in good faith, I hope this helps fine-tune the algorithm!

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notspoon OP t1_iy1r2gw wrote

I see where things are going wrong. The current dataset is based off of singles from so I see why classical music and those other genres are hard to find. As with most data science/AI problems, the solution is almost always more data. I'll be adding more songs within the week from a wider variety of styles and genres!

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ryan__fm t1_iy3sicx wrote

Does it only include those 35,000 songs in the data set? Or can you use Spotify's similarity features to ID songs outside your set that are similar to sort of "fill out" a playlist? I imagine once you get a few good song "seeds" that match the criteria, you could have Spotify do a bit of the heavy lifting in bringing in other similar songs.

Having trouble connecting since everyone's bombarding the site, but what I got on my first try was very promising. Since this is a natural language thing, it would be amazing to have this work with Siri or Alexa - any plans for something like that? I imagine this would be MUCH better at responding to my kids' music requests than the standard search.

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