Was excited to see this concept come to fruition by someone. Found some interesting new music from using this the last few weeks. The lifetime payment is worth the price of admission even if you only use it a handful of times. Looking forward to the future of this app, especially with finding more obscure artists from a search and excluding the usual bands that everyone seems to know. Integrates very well with Qobuz. Again, looking forward to seeing this app grow and get better with its search algorithms and features.
Deeper search algorithms that excludes the usual popular artists. I noticed even if I chose to exclude them in my search, they still keep showing up such as Pink Floyd, The Who, etc, etc.
I don't know of any standalone out there besides what music apps have integrated into their apps which may be biased in my opinion.
Only used this for a short time (few days) but so far I've found it works well and the integration with Tidal and Roon is seamless.
Tell us why you chose Sonic Oracle, Music Discovery Engine over alternative solutions?
Pricing and feedback from others who have used it.
Thanks Ken.
Glad the Tidal and Roon integration is working well for you.
The engine keeps improving every week, so those ratings have room to go up.
I appreciate the early review
Happy discovering
I use this with my Qobuz account. It has been great for building out playlists in genres I am not familiar with, which I use at work. I like that it uses listener data to find connections and is not promoting someone because it's being paid to or it's cheaper for the vendor.
@darkmagess This is one of my favorite use cases. Genre & Decade Discovery was built for exactly this. If you need a work playlist in a genre you don't know well, pick the genre, pick a decade, and let the engine do the rest. No promoted content, no label deals pushing certain artists to the top. What genres have you been exploring?
This is the way playlists should be made with Qobuz. So quick and easy to have playlists made, and easily editable after generating them just as if you created them yourself from scratch if a few tracks are not to ones liking. I have discovered enough new wonderful songs and artists on the first day I used Sonic Oracle I consider the $30 (US) lifetime membership already paid for! Going forward the ability to state the time length of the playlist, or number of tracks desired by the playlist would be my suggestion to make this great app even better.
@scott_watson1 This made my day. Knowing the lifetime paid for itself on your first session is the best feedback I've received.
Playlist length control is a great suggestion. Right now every search returns up to 75 tracks, but letting you set the number or a target time is something I'm noting down. Feature requests like this are how the engine keeps getting better.
What artists did you start with? Curious what led to the discoveries
@scott_watson1 @panyc77 I've already replied here, but it disappeared. Maybe the link to the artist wasn't permitted. I made a Sonny Stitt playlist and discovered Sonny Criss, never heard of him, and after researching was reported to be a highly underrated artist. If my jazz is played by a guy named Sonny I tend to like it!
Hey Product Hunt. I'm Alessandro, solo developer from Italy.
I built Sonic Oracle because every streaming app recommends the same 50 artists. "Similar Artists" gives you names you already know. Radio stations disappear when they're done.
Sonic Oracle maps connections real music lovers have already proven. You type in an artist, pick a depth, and it builds a permanent playlist saved to your Tidal or Qobuz library.
The Essential stage is genre-pure: Miles Davis Essential returns only trumpet players. Ramones Essential returns only punk. Adventurous crosses genre lines and goes where no streaming platform will take you.
10M+ artists. No AI. No label deals. 250+ paying users in two months with zero marketing budget.
Happy to answer anything about the build, the engine, or the growth
Sonic Oracle is a great app.
I have been a Qobuz user for several years, and so glad when they added Qobuz Connect and other enhancements to their app. Building playlists has been a slow process of manually adding tracks or albums. After about a minute or two using Sonic Oracle in trial mode, I found it was an instant buy. Inexpensive purchase. Very quick and easy to learn. I made several playlists in just a few minutes, fully integrated into Qobuz, so available across my devices. Now I have a quick way to create playlists to my liking. Strongly recommend...
@neil_wilson3 Thank you Neil
The idea was always this. Sitting on my couch in front of my stereo, thinking about an artist I like, typing the name on Sonic Oracle and almost instantly being able to hit play and listen to it on my stereo. No friction, fast, amazing
With nearly all the world’s music a tap away, why is it so hard to find new stuff you’ll love? Now this brainchild of Alessandro Peluso lets you laugh at today’s music giants’ cardboard discovery engines—and create beautifully crafted playlists customized to the rhythm of your choice. Easy flawless fun for engaged listening and sublime music discovery. And never any annoying pop-ups for hair loss or ED remedies!
Each new Sonic Oracle playlist flows effortlessly into my Qobuz favorites and fires up instantly. Best of all, this maestro inventor is all ears, adding new features suggested by you… like future-proofing your playlists from artists you never never never want to hear from again (take THAT, Steve Miller!).
Love music? Then treat yourself to the free trial, and be blown away by the outstanding playlists it creates for you, then listen on and support this discoverer of artists, genres and tracks that bring your senses to life. (And no, I’m not connected in any way to Sonic Oracle, other than being a subscriber-in-love.)
So Alessandro: Any chance your next creation will be just as good at creating drinklists among today's endless choices in wine??
@richard_lippman Richard !
Thanks for this, made me laugh.
If I could figure out wine the way I figured out music, I'd retire tomorrow.
And Steve Miller is noted. ;-D
I agree with everything that's been said, and can add 1 thing: I emailed Alessandro about a problem I was having and he said he would investigate it . About an hour later he emailed me that the problem was fixed. And it was. Can't expect better than that!
I'm really enjoying Sonic Oracle so far. I've discovered a lot of artists that never showed up in my usual streaming recommendations. Specially the adventurous mode has led me to some nice finds.
Highly recommended for music discovery enthusiasts.
@joao_correia5 Thanks Joao. Adventurous is my favorite too. What's the best find it's given you so far?
@panyc77 As a Qobuz user, my favorite part is the recommendations algorithm overall. Qobuz has excellent sound quality but its discovery and recommendation features are more limited than some other streaming platforms. Sonic Oracle fills that gap IMO :)
@joao_correia5 That's exactly why I built it. Qobuz has the best sound quality in streaming but discovery has never been its strength. No streaming platform's has. Sonic Oracle is designed to work alongside your streamer, not replace it. Have you tried the Adventurous depth? It crosses genre lines in ways no streaming app's built-in recommendations ever would
Appreciate the detailed review. The popular artists showing up in deeper searches is something I'm working on. I'm constantly refining the engine. In the meantime, you have the blacklist feature: hit the X next to any artist you don't want and they won't appear in your results again. Once you blacklist Pink Floyd and The Who, they're gone from every future search.
Thanks for sticking with it.