Ask HN: Anybody tried building an AI DJ?

3 points by cedws 2y ago ↗ HN

I'm not talking about something like the Spotify "DJ" that just plays tracks back to back based on your listening history. I mean something that can beatmatch, intelligently layer tracks together and do engaging transitions like real nightclub DJs.

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songeater 2y ago ↗

I would be interested in an answer here! Many years ago (when LLMs were mere RNNs), I tried to do so electronic music generation[1]... the aim was to eventually try to do exactly this. But not a project I followed through on...

[1] https://soundcloud.com/songxytr/sets/1_ak

CrypticShift 2y ago ↗

Just some ideas I've seen:

- As a first step, we may want to sort tracks by similarity. With Spotify API, each track has attributes that could be used to easily "map" the tracks mutual distances.

- Spotify already has an automix feature that works only on exclusive Spotify playlists [1]. And I think it is automated.

- There are (at least one) mobile apps that do this (not tested) : https://www.mixonset.com/

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/FAQs/What-is-Automix/ta-p/5...