Matan Kollenscher

Songhunt - AI powered song search and playlisting

Imagine a musical compass guiding you to songs that match your emotions and thoughts. One that uncovers gems reminiscent of a personal favorite, and curates the perfect playlist for an afternoon on the beach or dinner party with friends. Meet Songhunt! 🎶🧭

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Matan Kollenscher
A decade ago, between digital signal processing class and Music theory 401, I dreamt of an algorithm that would sift through the avalanche of songs out there are and matchmake between them and the ears looking for them. That would figure out the intricate mix in every song and find it a home. Because very few things in life are as deep as the feeling you get when a song breaks through to your heart. Walls come down, tears emerge, joy bursts out… There’s some sort of witchcraft in the mix between lyrics, music and sound that is individual and collective, casual and profound. And after that last note is sang and the last word spoken, you find yourself hungry for more. It could take months until you stumble upon that feeling again! MyPart set out to pursue my dream. We're on a mission to redefine how you discover and experience music. Until now, our AI engine and platform was reserved exclusively for industry professionals: Music executives at record labels, publishing houses, and TV, film, and advertising agencies have been harnessing MyPart’s AI to find the perfect songs for their creative projects. Now, MyPart's Songhunt Beta puts this powerful AI tool in YOUR hands. With Songhunt, you can: 1️⃣ Discover songs similar to the ones you love, e.g. ‘I’m looking for songs with cheeky lyrics a-la Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy,” or “I’m after songs that sound like Frank Ocean’s “Pyramids.” 2️⃣ Customize your search to match exactly what you’re looking for. Prompt by genres, decades, instruments, lyrical themes and moods, and more, e.g. ‘Danceable but angry pop songs with lyrics about breakups.’ 3️⃣ Build theme, mood, and genre-based playlists that you can export to your favorite streaming platform and share with friends on social media.
Kyle Adams
Sweet! I'm curious - does it look at distinct sonic qualities of the songs to discern similar songs? I find Spotify to be very good at recommending bands that would likely tour together based on listenership but they aren't actually sonically paired.
Matan Kollenscher
What a cool question @kyleadams ! The secret sauce of our approach is that our AI analyzes sonic qualities, lyrical qualities and compositional qualities, and then combines them in a way that is likely to resonate with the human ear. But Songhunt actually allows you to search for songs that are only similar in one of these aspects! Once you search with a song, a red icon appears to the right of the search bar ("define similarity type"). Click it and choose to sort the results by "Production and Sound" instead of weighted similarity. Try this out and tell us what you thought? 🤘
Kyle Adams
@kollenscher thats very cool man! going to try this out today. thanks for the insight and information!
Esus 🛡️
"A decade ago, between digital signal processing class and Music theory 401, I dreamt of an algorithm that would sift through the avalanche of songs out there are and matchmake between them and the ears looking for them." What a great intro, haha. And that brand name is ⚡️ Some feedback since you asked for it in launch notes: - I tried searching artist name, and it wasn't able to resolve, so swapped to song and it worked. - My instinct was to look for a search bar in the middle of the landing, the artist pictures on the slider didn't really add to my user experience. 😅 - I love the click and instant YouTube stream. Very friendly/easy. Congrats on your launch!
Matan Kollenscher
@esus - thank you so much for your kind note and amazing feedback! Means a lot ❣️ Artist names should work as well - but we'll check that out asap! Our AI has crunched about a quarter of a million songs thus far - so it might be that we simply missed your favorite artist... We'll be adding features tracking favorite requests so that we could crunch as many songs popular requests as possible. Re: artist pictures - noted! Thanks again for taking the time to share 🙏 Happy songhunting! Please drop us a line if you think of anything else
Fabio Salvadori
It works well and it's got good prompting. I'm definitely supporting this, especially for its potential. Planning any integration with Spotify and others? And I'm curious how you populated your database: there's not many songs right now (totally normal, don't misunderstand me) and I'm wondering what you have in store for it. Congrats on a launch well done.
Matan Kollenscher
@fabiosalvadori Dear Fabio - thank you so much for your kind words and vote of confidence 👏 We really appreciate your support and your input! Re: Spotify integration - you can already export playlists to Spotify! Press "+" at the bottom right of any song you'd like added to a playlist throughout your search, and note the top right icon which lets you edit/export your playlist to Spotify. If you have additional integration ideas - do drop us a line! Re: DB - we've crunched around 250,000 songs thus far, but definitely intend to add a lot more! AI analysis of lyrics, music and sound is quite a heavy workload for a startup 😅
Rachel from MegaVote
Congrats Matan on the launch!
Matan Kollenscher
Thank you @rachel_mvn ! And good luck with MegaVote 💪
Mobi NS
really fell in love with this one so nice !!!
Matan Kollenscher
Thank you so much @mobi__na ! Deeply touched by your kind note 💝
Zeng
I love this tool! congratulations on your launch.
Matan Kollenscher
Thank you @zeng for the rad words and good vibes!
RameshKannan
Do we need to integrate Spotify for it?
Matan Kollenscher
Hi @rameshkannan ! You can export playlists to Spotify without logging in to your Spotify account: Press "+" at the bottom right of any song you'd like added to a playlist throughout your search, and note the top right icon which lets you edit/export your playlist to Spotify. If you have other integration ideas - please drop us a line!
RameshKannan
@kollenscher wow that is cool
Shunsuke Sakata
This is useful in the Music fes !
Matan Kollenscher
Glad you liked it @shun_skt_93 ! 🙏
Tanya Pereira
This sound amazing! I take way too long to select what I want to listen to. Having it done for me automatically sounds awesome!! surely trying this out
Matan Kollenscher
Thanks @tanya_p ! Looking forward to hearing about your experience 💕
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