I don't know what API's you're using to match artists, but you're doing a fantawesomestic job at it. That's right. I had to make up a word for just how awesome you're doing for a new project.
Because the things shown here on HN are usually mockups or "mostly working" I was fully expecting it to fail when I searched for a Korean rock group. In Korean. Results? It came up with a number of familiar artists (and even the ones not in the same genre were similar enough and I enjoyed them). A few expected hiccups when some gaming results showed up (the group does a song for a popular MMO) but better-than-expected results (which would be a hiccup on the unicode and no results found. ;) )
I search a Japanese rap artist and it actually turned up other Japanese rap artists. She's also soft-spoken though and so I got a number of soft-spoken songs, different genre but same feel. The artists found weren't ones that YouTube might find.
I'm usually very disappointed in "find similar artists/song" features. They gravitate towards showing other popular artists if you search a popular artist and if you search something obscure it all comes tumbling down. I'm not sure what you're doing different - but you're doing a good job at it.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 21.3 ms ] threade: The search is specific, as other searches are working for me. So if it helps, the search was "Flaming Jun" - no quotes.
I'm trying it out now with proper searches. (Flaming Jun was a typo of Flaming June, which it found.)
I'll leave some feedback on it in a few hours.
E: Looks like it got hugged to death or you're fixing something. I'll check back in later. The first two results I tried were really good though.
Because the things shown here on HN are usually mockups or "mostly working" I was fully expecting it to fail when I searched for a Korean rock group. In Korean. Results? It came up with a number of familiar artists (and even the ones not in the same genre were similar enough and I enjoyed them). A few expected hiccups when some gaming results showed up (the group does a song for a popular MMO) but better-than-expected results (which would be a hiccup on the unicode and no results found. ;) )
I search a Japanese rap artist and it actually turned up other Japanese rap artists. She's also soft-spoken though and so I got a number of soft-spoken songs, different genre but same feel. The artists found weren't ones that YouTube might find.
I'm usually very disappointed in "find similar artists/song" features. They gravitate towards showing other popular artists if you search a popular artist and if you search something obscure it all comes tumbling down. I'm not sure what you're doing different - but you're doing a good job at it.