Stunned with AI's ability to profile my music taste - discovered 8 new songs and some new artists.

[arunvenkats]

Last evening, I was watching the season finale of "Slow Horses" (Apple TV). There are some songs featured in television series that hits you immediately and strikes something deep within you. From this episode it was "Fall at your feet" by "Crowded House". I had used the magic of Shazam music recognition to identify the track. Was listening to it again and again.

I was wondering why I love that song and I have not listened to a single Crowded House song till then. I started a conversation in ChatGPT about this. I provide a few other songs which evoked similar feelings for me. After a few exchanges of chat, it concluded that my taste in music is "Luminous melancholy". Apparently not a regular genre, but the phrase "luminous melancholy" is used informally by critics, audiophiles, and playlist curators to describe music that combines sadness and serenity — melancholy that glows rather than darkens. The explanation it gave was simply unbelievable and true. It even divided it into sub categories in rock, pop and trance. Then came the real magic - It gave me a playlist though which I discovered new songs and artists. I know services like Spotify have brilliant music suggestion which hits it right most of the time. I use it a lot. But that was magic hidden. But here I could explore and discover music to my taste -- with a buddy with almost infinite knowledge about all the musicians, songs and genres.

Just wanted to share the experience!

Regards,
Arun

 

[Nikhil]

I have been working on a similar thought process - something along the lines of how to train your algorithms!
I regularly use Spotify to generate playlists based off a single song that I like and it is amazing.

However, I have not used ChatGPT or CoPilot to discover music. Must give it a try.


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[arj]

There used to be a service called Pandora before spotify which did it very nicely and gave you a list of songs you might like.

 

[chander]

There used to be a service called Pandora before spotify which did it very nicely and gave you a list of songs you might like.

Pandora was incredible, another was Last.fm - but it could tell you similar artists.

 

[alpha1]

AI is essentially a statistical analysis tool working on entire world's library, and customized to your specific needs.
Now wonder it performs better than most humans in most usual tasks ... including identifying, classifying and consequently suggestions

 

[Yogesh]

Does this kind of AI magic work for Indian music?