Show HN: Anthrology – Time-Traveling Radio

4 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by airstrike

5 Comments

gavinhenry

5 hours ago

I absolutely love it! Tell us more about what's underneath?

airstrike

4 hours ago

Glad you like it! I've been listening to it nonstop.

The core is database of >9k songs tagged by mood (and a fun fact!). Coming up with the right 2 axes for the mood (solitary <-> social, chill <-> intense) took a few iterations. I think I need to get the number of songs to about 20–30k soon, to add more variety.

Then there's an algorithm to determine which song to sample given the mood/year combo and song attributes, which forms a radio schedule. You can see some of those song attributes by visiting a song's detailed page (click on the "now playing" marque text or visit /stats and search).

I've added keyboard shortcuts and the rest is just polish!

ranausmanai

4 hours ago

Looks pretty interesting. I am going to try it now.

SaltwaterCoffee

4 hours ago

This is a great idea!!

airstrike

4 hours ago

Thank you!! I've been wishing for this for years, to be honest, and happy to have finally built it.