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Sonic Oracle update: nearly 3 million artists, works with any Tidal/Qobuz connected setup

For those who still don't know Sonic Oracle: it's a music discovery tool for Tidal and Qobuz. You type in an artist, pick a depth (Essential, Balanced, or Adventurous), and it builds a permanent playlist of connected artists saved directly to your library. Not a station. Permanent playlists based on what listeners with similar taste enjoy.

The database now covers nearly 3 million artists across 44+ sub-genres.

Every playlist lands in your Tidal or Qobuz library, which means any hardware with Tidal Connect or Qobuz Connect picks it up instantly. Roon, Audirvana, Aurender, dCS, Lumin, Naim, Linn, Bluesound, WiiM, and everything else. Create a playlist on your phone, hit play on your streamer.

Today we hit 100 paid subscribers. To celebrate that and Memorial Day weekend, I'm offering 10% off the lifetime plan through Monday midnight. Use code MEMORIAL100 at checkout. Lifetime goes from $29.99 to $26.99.

Free to try at https://sonicoracle.music/. Three playlists, no credit card needed.

Alessandro

panyc77
kenrus
65 posts
 

I’ve used Sonic Oracle for several weeks now. I like it a lot. It’s sort of a poor man’s Roon. You type in the name of an artist and Sonic Oracle instantly gives a list of related artists, some I’ve never heard of which is great, whose songs can be delivered in a playlist. When you’re ready you punch another button and you get a playlist of between 25 and 75 songs delivered directly to, in my case Qobuz, your streaming service through which it can go to Roon. A lot of the songs I get are either completely new to me or songs I haven’t thought about for a long time. From there you can, if you want to, go to the album which contains any given song. 
 

I definitely recommend it. 
 

Ken

panyc77 OP
90 posts
 

"Poor man's Roon" made me laugh. At $29.99 lifetime, I'll take it.

In all seriousness though, Sonic Oracle does things Roon doesn't. Roon shows you a short list of similar artists you probably already know. Sonic Oracle finds up to 25 artists connected to your taste, many you've never heard of, and builds a permanent playlist in your library. Roon's radio creates a station that disappears when it's done. Sonic Oracle playlists stay forever. And nothing in Roon comes close to Adventurous mode.

The best part is they work together. Sonic Oracle fills your library. Roon plays it.

Glad it's working well for you, Ken.

Alessandro

996turbo911
219 posts
 

A friend was just raving about this, I'll have to give it a try.

My confusion was thinking it replaced Roon, rather than working together. Or at least if you want them to they can. That changes things for me, I'm down to try it out.

panyc77 OP
90 posts
 

Yes, Sonic Oracle feeds your Roon library, it doesn't replace it. Create a playlist, and Roon picks it up instantly.
Let me know how it goes.
Alessandro

lerenard
1 posts
 

I am a new member of Sonic Oracle. It is a fantastic app, absolutely great. I have not listened to all the playlist created yet but played parts of a few of them and I love the contents.
I have one issue though. When I search for the band with the name Airbag, I can choose the one I am lokking for: the Norwegian progressive rock band Airbag. Great. However, when the playlist is created it does NOT contain the Airbag from Norway. Only other bands of other genres. I tried it a few times, ran the same search a few times, used different depth's but 'my' Airbag will not be a part of the playlist. Can I do something to fix that? Can you fix this? Please?
Hope you can help.
Regards, Paul

 

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