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Posted by ksampath02 4/1/2025

Shared DNA in Music(pudding.cool)
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emmelaich 4/2/2025|
Apparently the Smoke on the Water riff is Beethoven, sorta. According to Ritchie Blackmore.

"It's an interpretation of inversion, You turn it back and play it back and forth. It's actually Beethoven's 5th. So, I owe him a lot of money."

999900000999 4/2/2025||
What a cool project. I really think music is one of our greatest examples of shared heritage.

My only comment is I think this would of benefited from some interviews or commentary by actual musicians. It felt really really surface level.

KurSix 4/2/2025||
Music cuts across time, geography, and culture in a way very few things do. Even when artists are worlds apart, they end up building on the same rhythms, motifs, or emotions
TheRealQueequeg 4/2/2025||
Nah, we'd rather remove the human from the loop and stroke our egos with technical achievements.
danwills 4/2/2025||
Reminds me of 'Wonder Riff' by Baterz, although it's mainly about arguing with David Whiffler about how it's not actually a copy of Stevie Wonder, just slightly similar. Good fun Aussie pub-rock vibe tho I reckon it's great:

https://youtu.be/Pe5x6asEkgs?si=qTfwIva1_fRY6973

cypherpunks01 4/2/2025||
Wow this is super cool!

They primarily used the genius.com API, which I didn't know existed. Anyone built any other cool projects with it?

Is there a "discovery" player that plays your own Spotify library, but shows you all related tracks by sample, interpolation, cover, etc from the Genius API that you can explore? Kind of like a wikipedia rabbithole, but for music?

freedomben 4/2/2025|
We used it to allow pepole to include song lyrics in their letters sent to loved ones. Unfortunately it was a constant source of breakage in the app and we eventually removed it when they pushed a very breaking change and there wasn't any availability to rewrite that part of the app.
echelon 4/1/2025||
This is an incredibly cool idea. I would love to see this applied to music, but also literary structure, film, etc.
HeliumHydride 4/1/2025|
https://tvtropes.org/
__MatrixMan__ 4/2/2025|||
I'd like to see a tvtropes for rhetorical tricks. That way every time a politician dished out a creative lie it could be mapped to a curated pile of historical references for the last time that lie was told and we can see how it worked for the lied-to the last time it came around.
mazdayasna 4/2/2025|||
WARNING WARNING
hserang 4/1/2025||
This is wonderful. I have wanted to make some version of this for years. Thank you for sharing!
yapyap 4/2/2025||
wow this is such SUCH a neat project, I never realized the music game was this incestuous (not necessarily in a bad way).

One tiny tip though, when you have the buttons in the text to play the songs, the green buttons, you don’t really know how long that’ll go on for so a playtime indicator just by having the lightgreen button fill with dark green over time from left to right, 0 at the start 100 at the end would be great.

All in all really neat!

topologie 4/11/2025||
Made me think of that Silicon Valley episode with the Patent Troll.

I don't remember it exactly, but I think near the end Richard solves the situation by building a (fake?) music app that detected that the song that had made the Patent Troll rich was actually a ripoff from another song that Richard had acquired the rights to, so now Richard could technically sue the Patent Troll for all the money he had made...

If anybody has a link to that scene it would be great.

shriracha 4/2/2025||
Great great project, as usual by the pudding
hy4000days 4/2/2025|
In other words, many songs use the same chord progressions despite being classified as separate genres.
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