I built an app that recommends progressive artists
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Topic: I built an app that recommends progressive artists
Posted By: eduardofcbg
Subject: I built an app that recommends progressive artists
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 17:12
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I have been working on this this summer. Just type an artist and it should give you accurate recommendations. Please tell me what you think! https://progressive.audio/" rel="nofollow - https://progressive.audio/
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Posted By: Quinino
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 17:27
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^ "Accurate" , in what sense, Eduardo ? How can one relate several Artists/works of Art, without letting our personal taste interfere on these choices ? Good effort, though, parabéns !  |
Posted By: eduardofcbg
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 19:21
I said it should be accurate, it's not perfect. It works with every artist on progarchives - this was not made manually. I build an algorithm that analyses the reviews on progarchives and tries to find the artists which most probably you would like. This is essentially based on the average taste of the agglomerate of all people on progarchives. Will not be perfect every time, but the recommendations should be human-like. |
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Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 19:30
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I type in me but nothing came up.............. ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: eduardofcbg
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 19:34
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What did you type? You need to write an artist name. Without misspellings. |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 19:38
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EddieRUKiddingVarese or was I just kidding........... ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 19:43
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I have to say it works reasonably well. Quite imperfect, and I'm sure you can improve that, but most of the selections it offered were not too far off what a newbie might find interesting. What is your biorhythm: what does it base the selections on? Your own engrams, bands in a same subgenre? Good work. There were a few stinkers, like recommending Isildurs Bane based on Battles, quite far from one another. But well done overall. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 19:47
| Cannot type into search! |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 20:02
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worked for me, except couldn't find me but that was an impossible challenge ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 20:35
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BTW: this should probably be moved to 'Get the Word Out'. It promotes a site and doesn't deal with General Musics. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 21:00
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Very cool! The results were a bit mixed, with some selections seeming odd (Sloche not turning up Maneige right away?), but what can you expect with an algorithm? Also, some of the artists' iTunes links linked to the wrong artists. Bubu, for example, turned up a Brazilian pandeiro drum player dressed as a clown, as opposed to the Argentinian eclectic masterpiece of Anabelas. So obviously some fine tuning could still be done, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: eduardofcbg
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 21:10
I will definitely try to keep improving the app. That's why I published it here. If you search for Maneige, Sloche actually appears in the first page. The problem here is that the results are not symmetric, something that will be fixed soon. Regarding iTunes, I just use their search function so I can't do much about that. There are links to other websites bellow.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 21:23
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The results seemed very good when I tried it with a few bands and artists. It would come up with lots I already know and love, some I've been meaning to check, and others I hadn't heard of and now want to check out. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: eduardofcbg
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 21:26
Thanks! I tried to keep the algorithm simple. I do not assume any genre regarding bands. For every band, I check all their reviews for mentions of another band. I defined the similarity value between bands A and B as basically the condicional probability of finding a mention to A knowing it's a review from B. Then this value is scaled with the popularity of the band. We don't want to show very popular bands because the user may already know them, but very obscure bands with few reviews may also not be ideal. If you meant n-grams, I did not use them at all. For minimizing the number of false-positives I take into account the number of users that like both band A and B. If this value is large, them it must mean an higher chance of the artists being similar.
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Posted By: eduardofcbg
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 21:28
You need to type where is says "Pink Floyd".
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 23:40
You check all reviews for mention of other bands? Wow. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: DDPascalDD
Date Posted: September 13 2016 at 23:56
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Hmmm... You sure you've added each and every PA artist? The site doesn't recognize me ( http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=9705" rel="nofollow - Pascal van den Dool ) ------------- |
Posted By: eduardofcbg
Date Posted: September 14 2016 at 00:08
You only have one written review on PA. That was not enough to calculate similar artists yet.
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Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 14 2016 at 03:31
Thanks!  How stupid I feel!!! Most sites use this feature of search! Thank you, so simple!!  I am going to be lost on another site, when they don't have Pink Floyd!!
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