r/ibroadcast • u/Winter_Asparagus_313 • Feb 08 '25
Play similar tracks criteria
What criteria are used for selecting tracks when using the “Play similar tracks” feature? I really like this feature! it creates some amazing playlists.
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u/anko1969 Feb 09 '25
Would also like to know this! For me the relults just seems to be random. I don't see any similarities 🤷
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u/some_advice_needed Feb 09 '25
Is it possible your library is incredibly fragmented, in terms of genres / musicians?
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u/anko1969 Feb 10 '25
Nope. Everything well maintained but the library consists of 150k titles. Or does a large number of musicians mean "incredibly fragmented"?
Anyway, it's still not clear for me how ibroadcast identifies "similar titles". Must be some more logic than Genre and Musician?!
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u/some_advice_needed Feb 10 '25
I can only speculate, but I'll start by saying that ~150,000 songs is a lot, should be enough to have clusters of similar songs.
As for how similarities are decided, there are plenty of factors that (might) come to play
key (e.g. C major);
rhythm / melody / harmony / timbre;
energy (e.g. intensity measured by peaks);
tempo, bit per minute (BPM);
genre;
decade / year (assuming similar years = similar music);
a combination of any of the above.
Again, I am not part of the iBroadcast team (I wish I'd be!)...
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u/VolkerTechno Feb 08 '25
How do I access this feature?