Thanks for the response. Sorry for the ongoing questions but, my account qobuz is associated with a dead email. Just too difficult to update with qobuz and it still works to log in. But when I ask for a code to be sent per your instructions above, when I specify two of my working emails, I don't seem to get a code sent. is there a work around here regarding my dead email.
I built a music discovery app for Tidal and Qobuz users. A lot has changed since launch.
Some of you might remember my first post about Sonic Oracle. I built it because I personally needed it and nothing like it existed. I wanted to type in an artist I love and get back a playlist of artists I’ve never heard of who share something with them. Not algorithmic "people also listened to" suggestions. Deeper connections based on sound, style, and taste.
Since launch, the app has grown significantly.
Genre coverage expanded to 44+ sub-genres across 10 genre families. K-pop, city pop, gypsy jazz, acid jazz, darkwave, krautrock, fado, klezmer, djent, sludge metal, flamenco, cumbia... if your taste runs deep, Sonic Oracle goes there now.
Niche and cross-genre artists work much better. Obscure composers, experimental artists, soundtrack creators. Seeds like these used to return thin results. Not anymore.
The newest feature is click-to-discover. When your playlist comes back, click any artist in the results to start a new search from them. Chain one discovery into the next without going back to the search bar.
Three discovery depths: Essential (closest matches), Balanced (a mix), Adventurous (deep cuts you won’t find elsewhere). Adventurous is where it gets interesting.
Playlists land directly in your Tidal or Qobuz library. Roon, Audirvana, Bluesound, WiiM, and every other app or streamer picks them up instantly.
Still a solo developer. Still improving it every week.
Free to try at sonicoracle.music
Three playlists, no credit card needed
Alessandro
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If your Qobuz account is linked to that inactive email, that is where the verification code will be sent. If you want to share the email address here, I can look into it. However, please note that every time you log out of Sonic Oracle on your connected device (mobile, iPad, etc.), you will be required to verify your account again. My recommendation is to contact Qobuz customer service and ask them to update your inactive email to a working one. That said, I am happy to help if you would like to provide the email address currently associated with your Qobuz account.
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OK.. I have SO running. One question, I suspect the answer is no, but.. Can SO search specific (sub)genre’s themselves? Example: I created a sub(sub?)genre playlist in Aurender Conductor-connected to Qobuz in this order 1) Clear/delete all previously played tracks in Conductor queue. 2) Load Stanley Turrentine’s album Blue Hour (this album is blues flavored traditional jazz) and listened to it (great album btw). 3) Once the album had played Conductor/Qobuz continued playing by filling in tracks of similar, blues flavored traditional jazz. See the playlist "Jazzmen Playin Blues2" on Qobuz. 4) The music selections were terrific(!) and I looked to see if there was a way to save them beyond manually looking them up and creating a playlist. Fortunately, Conductor has an option to create either a Conductor-specific (stored locally) or Qobuz playlist from tracks in the queue of what has been played.
So the result was an extensive blues flavored traditional jazz playlist. I discovered 2-3 dozen great albums from this experience. Many of the albums were bluesy albums by artists that spent much-most of their careers playing jazz in their particular style, but not necessarily blues influence jazz. Take Turrentine for example. He played his style of jazz, which occasionally included jazz with a heavy blues influence, but not all the time. OK..now when I enter Stanley Turrentine into SO and create a playlist, I receive a playlist with many similar artists playing jazz that is somewhat similar to the "average" (sorry..but the word works in this context) Turrentine sound. Can SO create a non-specific artist playlist that is comprised of a sub-style of music itself, again, for example, traditional jazz with a moderate to heavy blues influence? I suspect not, though maybe this is a potential future development for SO?
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Quick question first, which dial setting did you use for the Turrentine search? Essential, Balanced, or Adventurous? Each gives very different results. Essential keeps it tight to his core sound, Balanced mixes in unexpected finds, Adventurous goes deep. Great question overall, and Blue Hour is a fantastic album. Right now Sonic Oracle is artist-based, so when you enter Stanley Turrentine, you get artists similar to his overall catalog rather than a specific slice of his sound like the blues-influenced jazz side. What you're describing, the ability to search by a sub-genre or style itself ("blues-flavored traditional jazz") rather than a specific artist, is something I'm actively working on. The idea is exactly what you laid out: let the engine explore a style across multiple artists who may only occasionally play in that space, rather than being defined by it. In the meantime, try the Essential setting if you haven't already, and use click-to-discover on the results to chain deeper into that blues-jazz space. Appreciate the detailed feedback, it helps shape what gets built next. |
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