What’s Music Machinery?

The world of online music is growing rapidly.  Every day, hundreds of thousands of new tracks by new artists are released. Today, nearly all recorded music is online and available for you to listen to anywhere at any time, on any device.

However, this seemingly endless supply of new music creates a problem for you, the music listener. How can you find music that you will like when there are millions and millions of tracks to choose from?

In this Substack, I write about the world of online music discovery and recommendation.  I look at the tools available to help people find music.  I examine some of the issues that can make music recommendations go bad.   I also write about things that I find generally interesting including programming, data visualization, music creation,  and (of course) music.


About the author

Paul Lamere is a senior staff engineer at Spotify, and was formerly at The Echo Nest, and Sun Microsystem’s research lab.

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Music technology, recommender systems, software development.

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I've been building music recommenders and playlisting engines since the iPod era. When I'm not writing code, you might find me using machines (aka synthesizers) to create bleeps and bloops.