Paul's Music Wreckommender
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Description
Paul's Music Wreckommender is an anti-recommender. Give it an artist that you like and it will return a list of artists that are as far away as possible form the original. It's a great way to clear out that party at the end of the night. Use the wreckommender to create that special mix-tape for the girl that you want to break up with. Or use it to explore for new music by feeding the wreckommender the names of bands that you hate.
Here are some sample playlists:
The Wreckommender works by creating a gigantic graph of artists where each artist is connected to its nearest neighbors (using Echo Nest artist similarity). When given a an artist, the Wreckommender searchs the graph to find the artists that are furthest way from the seed artist and uses these artists to create a playlist
There's some science behind the anti-recommendation. The paper "Anything but Heavy Metal" discusses the issues around musical tolerance.
Paul's Music Wreckommender was inspired by the LibraryThing Unsuggester.
Links
http://wreckommender.com
More info at MusicMachinery.com
Tools, Platforms and APIs Used
The Echo Nest API
Comments (1)
Nick Peters said
at 7:50 pm on Nov 22, 2009
Nice idea. I tried combining a list of artists from either end of the spectrum starting with Metallica to try and narrow it down to something I might actually like. Unfortunately, once I had a list of three artists (Metallica, Garth Brooks, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole) it started returning Metallica as one of the results.
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