Sonic Oracle: music discovery for Tidal and Qobuz users. Major updates
Hey,
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. Not an algorithm pushing what a platform wants you to hear. Real discoveries based on what listeners with similar taste enjoy.
Big round of updates this week. Here’s what shipped:
My Discoveries is new. Your search history is now saved. Every discovery you’ve made, all in one place. Tap any to revisit it.
Click-to-discover lets you click any artist in your results to start a new search from them. Chain discoveries together until you land on something you never knew existed.
Track variety is improved. Playlists now feature different tracks each time, even for the same artist. Run the same search twice, get fresh songs both times.
Speed. Discovery results are near-instant. Repeat playlists create in about 1 second.
Deeper database. Coverage expanded to nearly 3 million artists and over 3 million albums.
Better niche results. Obscure seeds that previously returned too few matches now pull back stronger results.
K-pop, J-pop, C-pop. Full genre coverage for Asian pop including city pop, visual kei, and more.
Landing page refresh. Better mobile layout and updated social previews when sharing links.
More coming. As always, let me know what’s working and what’s not.
I built this because I personally needed it and nothing like it existed. Still a solo developer, still shipping improvements every week.
Free to try at https://sonicoracle.music/ Three playlists, no credit card needed.
Alessandro
Head to https://sonicoracle.music/ to try it out. Three playlists are free, no credit card needed. Pick Tidal or Qobuz, connect your account, and you’re in. Contact info is in the Terms of Service at the bottom of the landing page. Let me know how it goes. Alessandro
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To anyone considering- I just joined and it is pretty great. Very easy to set up and to use. I love this as I listen to music a lot (like most of us) and I am always looking for new playlists. The Qobuz search and associated playlists often seem a bit generic. Getting a playlist that is a bit different than the typical Qobuz playlist is awesome. And I can get playlists based on more obscure artists that have no playlist in a Qobuz search. Certainly worth a look. I have no affiliation, but would like to see this prosper and remain available. :-) |
@dseltz +1. Echo your comments. It’s great. |
Big update live today. I overhauled how Sonic Oracle builds playlists at the Essential level. The results are night and day. What changed The recommendation engine was pulling in too many loosely-connected artists at Essential, diluting the quality. A Beatles Essential shouldn't include obscure side projects. It should give you The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, and Jimi Hendrix. Here's what shipped today: Smarter filtering across every genre Jazz seeds like Miles Davis now return only trumpet players at Essential: Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan. The engine understands the instrument defines the artist in jazz. Same for blues. B.B. King Essential gives you blues guitarists: John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Albert King. Rock, soul, country, metal, punk. Every genre now has tighter, genre-aware quality gates. Better stage progression Essential: Surgical. Only the closest, most undeniable connections. Balanced: Wider circle, broader exploration. Adventurous: Full exploration with cross-genre surprises. Each stage feels meaningfully different now. Moving the dial changes what you discover. Deeper data I deployed a massive expansion to the recommendation database. The engine now covers over 10 million artists with significantly richer relationship data. Better connections and more interesting deep cuts, especially at Balanced and Adventurous. Try these and see the difference Miles Davis Essential: every result is a trumpet legend. John Coltrane Essential: all tenor sax players. Beatles Essential: pure 60s rock royalty. Johnny Cash Essential: classic country hall of fame. Ramones Essential: nothing but punk. Black Sabbath Essential: pure metal. No playlist tool on the market does what Essential does now. Spotify's "fans also like" is a popularity contest. Last.fm's similar artists are a decade stale. Sonic Oracle understands Miles Davis Essential means trumpet players only, Bill Evans means jazz pianists, Ramones means punk and nothing else. That's not an algorithm. That's musical intelligence. Your feedback drives everything I build. Try some seeds and let me know what you think. Alessandro |
