Beats takes some time to understands what you really want. For example, when I chose, 'I'm at work & feel like dancing with no pants on to pop,' it presented me with a mix featuring Rihanna, Ke$ha, and Katy Perry. You provide the who, what, and where, and Beats gives you a playlist it thinks matches your sentence. One of the most popular (if a bit gimmicky) features is ' The Sentence,' a fill-in-the-blank Mad Libs way of choosing music.

'Heart' songs or 'X' them to hone the recommendations. After you give it some of your favorite genres and artists, Beats generates a list of playlists made by real humans based on your tastes. Its interface is clean, modern, and intuitive. Launched in 2014, Beats Music boasts a library of 20 million songs and is one of the most beautiful music recommendation apps available. Pros: Compatible with a lot of devices and music services, doesn't restrict your listening methods.Ĭons: Complicated interface, subject to YouTube's quirks. And you don't have to leave the site to sample the suggested songs, as TasteKid provides a sample of each artist's work, along with an artist bio. It's smart, learning more about you with each play. But it's more like a social network in that it shows you how popular that artist is with the TasteKid community. Like Gnoosic, TasteKid surfaces recommendations based on your existing tastes. Pros: Super simple, no frills, no potentially embarrassing sharing of your taste with anyone.Ĭons: It requires that you open a tool like Spotify to listen to the recommended musicians. If you're more of a visual person, Gibney also has a Music-Map that creates an interactive diagram of artists.

After each recommendation, tell Gnoosic if you liked what it came up with so it can learn your tastes. Gnoosic 'contains thousands of bands and quite some knowledge about who likes what,' says its creator Marek Gibney. Just type in three of your favorite artists and Gnoosic will start recommending similar musicians. If you're looking for a bare-bones recommendation tool, it doesn't get much simpler than Gnoosic.

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