I've given up on discovering new music using technology and gone back to curated lists. No matter how hard I've tried to exploit technology, friends/bloggers who are obsessed with music are always the best sources.
Subjective tastes tend to diverge too rapidly with machine learning.
If (fingers crossed someone is doing this) there was a really easy and non-spammy way for people to build a playlist using _any_ source material into something like muxtape (or opentape) I would use it. Until then, I will just continue to ask them for youtube links and bandcamp profiles.
Also, songs in an individual artists library can vary WILDLY.
There are some artists from whom I truly only like one single song from their entire catalogue.
Others, I like every single song, but that is super rare.
And I dont have the time interest or energy to actually attempt to tag or classify music and songs that I do like -- so I just pretty much am stuck listening to the same thing or actually getting individual recommendations from real people.
Subjective tastes tend to diverge too rapidly with machine learning.
If (fingers crossed someone is doing this) there was a really easy and non-spammy way for people to build a playlist using _any_ source material into something like muxtape (or opentape) I would use it. Until then, I will just continue to ask them for youtube links and bandcamp profiles.