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There's a new way to discover music. And it's nothing like what you're used to

Quick update for everyone here who’s been following the project.

I’ve been heads down on something for the past few weeks and it’s live now. I believe this is a game changer for this industry. 

The Vault is Sonic Oracle’s proprietary database. Built from the ground up over the past year. A separate track catalog with its own logic, its own connections, its own selection. No streaming platform has it. No other tool uses it and it changes how every playlist gets built.

Search for any artist on any streaming platform. The top tracks are the same for everyone. Same songs, same order. The popular stuff floats to the top and stays there.

The Vault ends this. Every single playlist is different. You run the same artist twice, you get two completely different sets of tracks. Deep cuts and hidden gems from across an artist’s full catalog.

Here’s what I’d suggest trying. Pick an artist you know inside and out. Run it with The Vault toggled on. Look at the tracks it pulls. Then switch to Popular and run the same artist. Popular gives you well-known tracks weighted by streaming numbers. It’s still a better version of what Tidal and Qobuz show you, because the artist selection behind it is Sonic Oracle’s engine, not theirs. But when you compare it to what The Vault found, you’ll hear why this took a year to build.

I tested it with Aretha Franklin. Ran The Vault twice. 63 tracks each time. Over 90% were different. Same seed artist, two playlists you’d never know came from the same search.

This works with your entire setup. Playlists land in your Tidal or Qobuz library and every piece of gear connected to it picks them up. Roon, Audirvana, Lumin, Naim, Aurender, dCS, everything.

Over 1000 users, 350+ paying subscribers with no marketing budget.
I built it because I needed this and couldn’t find it anywhere else. Turned out a lot of other people felt the same



Happy discovering 

Alessandro

panyc77
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sunshdw
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How does it connect to my Innous Sense app? Does it live within the Sense app or is it separate? I would assume I would have to put my Qobuz log in into your app and it creates a playlist within Qobuz in my Sense app?

panyc77 OP
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@sunshdw 

It's separate from Sense, but they work together. Sonic Oracle creates playlists directly in your Qobuz account. Since Sense pulls from your Qobuz library, the playlists show up there automatically.

 

You connect Qobuz once through a desktop browser (30-second setup), then discover artists and create playlists on sonicoracle.music. Open Sense and they're waiting for you.

 

Your Qobuz password never touches Sonic Orahi cle.

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sunshdw
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@panyc77 

Interesting. Is their an iPad app to create the playlists or is just from a web browser?

panyc77 OP
105 posts
 

@sunshdw 

No app needed. Sonic Oracle runs in your browser, so it works on iPad through Safari or Chrome. Just go to sonicoracle.music.

 

Tip: in Safari, tap the share button and "Add to Home Screen." It saves as an icon that opens full-screen, looks and feels like a native app.

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mclinnguy
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@sunshdw 

edit: Further to Alessandro’s post, as we were posting at the same time :) 

I was curious so I just tried it using my music playback remote. There is no "app" needed, I had already logged into and used the token to gain the "connection" to my Qobuz previously on my desktop, so it was just a case of going to Sonic Oracle’s website, (using Safari) getting a code sent to my email to verify the device, and it created the new playlist in Qobuz no problem. No need to do this on the desktop computer after the first time. (Perhaps no need for desktop at all?-need to verify) And my remote is an old iphone7. 

I am using Jplay at the moment, went into settings for Qobuz, updated, and the new 72 track playlist is there and immediately playable with wonderful Jplay, took all of about 60-70 seconds. And it is worth emphasizing this is just a Qobuz playlist like any other, editable and easily deleted if desired. 

Alessandro really knows what he is doing! Really slick program -I will stop calling it an "app" because there actually is no app to download.

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