another thing i sometimes wonder about these pieces that do audio analyses of hits is how often the tracks they feed into their analytical tools aren't even the correct ones. like the one i linked above says it sourced audio from spotify (if i'm understanding correctly), but, like, you don't even have to go that far back in the history of the charts before you start turning up hits that aren't on any of the streaming services or digital download stores. not to mention the many that aren't available on digital platforms as their original versions, but ARE available as bad, cheap-sounding re-recordings from 15 years later. personally when i am searching for old + relatively forgotten chart music i often have to turn to youtube when the streameries don't have the proper versions!
― dyl, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
If I had a way to automatically deactivate the Spotify audio-attribute API whenever anybody tries to use it to explain or predict hits, I would totally do that...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
ha. yeah, and dyl otm - - - i'm waiting for something like "we analyzed fifty bubblegum hits from the early 70s, and surprisingly, the feature most predictive of a hit in this period was tinny late 80s digital production"
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
"the late 2010s were characterized by an uptick in songs that sound as if they have been shifted up a half-step in key"
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
Lol that's a joke, but that's actually a good trick. When you tune the track a little sharp it pops on radio
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
the streameries
nice
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
oh I meant people pitch-shifting videos for YouTube to get around copyright detection but that works too
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
this is killing mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q34lJ5gEJs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 April 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link
lmao that's deserves to take the 77 this year
― rob, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
lol excellent work.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
loving this new mountain goats
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
UMS, how did you encounter this 4-year old youtube with 38 views?
― rob, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Didn’t we talk about his guy recently in some thread?
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
I saw it on Facebook via a former ilxor
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
btw this guy's body of work in insane
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
so this is what kozelek is up to these days
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 April 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
Listen to @alyandaj's cover of @TheNational's "I Need My Girl" https://t.co/hfv5RvyYNQ pic.twitter.com/kCm6qp8e1C— Stereogum (@stereogum) July 31, 2021
― my Least Favorite Writer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 31 July 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
I was really hoping this would be the Pitchfork Peppa Pig review
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Saturday, 31 July 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link