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[melannen]

I wish there was a place where I could listen to a bunch of songs, and mark the ones that Do The Thing, and then it could tell me what The Thing is.

(I have tried various apps that try to figure out your music tastes based on songs you like, but they always immediately start giving me songs that Do The Thing. I think because my music likes are basically "All songs that don't Do The Thing" and they aren't smart enough to figure that out. I need an app that avoids songs based on what you don't like instead. And can figure out what The Thing is.)


--brought to you by skipping by 8 radio stations on my commute looking for a song that doesn't Do The Thing

Comments

[ironymaiden]

I feel like if you made a list of songs with and without the thing we might be able to crowd source an answer for you?

[melannen]

Part of the problem is that I don't know any of the songs that Do The Thing because I can't listen to them! (Like literally, part of The Thing is that my audio processing goes way down, and then it's four songs later and I haven't heard any of them and can't remember which is the one I faded out on.) I'd have to code a thing where I immediately click 'this one does the thing' and it marks it, records it, and moves on to the next song, to even get a list, and at the point the world owes me an AI to figure it out. :P

[ivyfic]

I still carefully curate all of my music listening and listen exclusively to music I own on playlists I've created. While I do go and listen to new music sometimes, that's an intentional choice and I have to be in the right head space. I fundamentally don't understand being served music I don't know algorithmically. #old

[melannen]

I mean, I mostly listen to the radio and my dad's LP collection, so I think I got you beat there on "old". :P What is this "playlist" thing? It's a thing the DJ comes up with right?

I just want to be able to describe to people what is wrong with the songs they love and all I can come up with is "it sounds like a combination of radio static and bubblegum that you've been chewing for too long".