I BUILT A MUSIC DISCOVERY TOOL FOR QOBUZ AND TIDAL THAT CREATES PERMANENT PLAYLISTS IN YOUR LIBRARY

[SonicOracle]

Hi all, Alessandro here

I'm a developer and audiophile and i'm here to share this with you because I think this community will get it immediately.

I built Sonic Oracle (sonicoracle.ai) out of frustration with how streaming platforms handle discovery. Qobuz and Tidal have excellent sound quality but weak recommendation engines. And the best discovery tool that ever existed — Last.fm's Neighbor Radio — has been dead for years.

So in a nutshell here's what SonicOracle does:

- You enter a seed artist
- It queries multiple music databases to map listener taste patterns around that artist
- Returns up to 25 artist recommendations ranked by taste affinity (not sonic similarity — an important distinction)
- One click builds a permanent, editable playlist directly in your Qobuz or Tidal library
- Works immediately with whatever you use to play back — Audirvāna, Roon, any DAP or streamer connected to your account picks it up instantly — no syncing, no importing, it's just there waiting for you.

The distinction between taste affinity and sonic similarity matters more than it might seem. Sonic similarity finds artists that "sound like" your seed. Taste affinity finds artists loved by the same listeners — which surfaces cross-genre connections that acoustic matching misses entirely.

There's also a discovery dial with three stages: Familiar (closest connections), Balanced, and Adventurous (wider taste network, and more relaxed filers).
We have tested extensively and the results are quite incredible !

We ran beta for a few days on r/Qobuz — 5,000+ stations created just within few hours!

Launching very soon. Waitlist at sonicoracle.ai if anyone wants to be notified.

Happy to answer technical questions about how it works — within reason, some of the methodology is proprietary.

 

[HalSF]

This sounds like an interesting wrinkle on algorithmic tools to generate a fire hose of music using swarms of data and (I assume) AI. I’ll leave it to others sympathetic to this kind of passive, robot-mediated associative force-fed listening to evaluate this tool.

The best discovery tool that ever existed is fans, music criticism, friends, trusted voices, one individual human voice at a time sharing human experiences.

 

[SonicOracle]

Fair point...
You're not wrong that human curation is irreplaceable. But my app isn't trying to replace it. It's trying to get you to the music faster so you can have those human moments with it.
The friends, the critics, the trusted voices you mention, they were doing taste affinity long before algorithms existed. That's exactly what we're doing here. Not a fire hose of random shit music but a map of where people with similar taste actually go.
Alessandro

 

[Cogito]

I'll certainly give it a try. The current implimentation from Tidal is VERY lacking. Slacker Radio, now LiveOne, has a great algorithm.

 

[eddantes]

Are filters available? To avoid getting recomendations from artists, genres, languages, or ai for example?

 

[Timcognito]

Interesting. How it compare with Roon and Roon Radio?
How will it be monetized and what will be the price or subscription cost?
What happens to personal data? Does it get monetized?
Is it interacting directly with one's streaming service or is it separate?

 

[SonicOracle]

Are filters available? To avoid getting recomendations from artists, genres, languages, or ai for example?

Yes, genre and other filters are already built in. Language filtering is interesting but not a priority but definitely on the list for future upgrades
The AI question is unclear

 

[SonicOracle]

I'll certainly give it a try. The current implimentation from Tidal is VERY lacking. Slacker Radio, now LiveOne, has a great algorithm.

That's all I ask. Come back and tell me what you think.


And yes, Tidal's discovery is exactly the gap Sonic Oracle is trying to fill.


Alessandro

 

[SonicOracle]

Interesting. How it compare with Roon and Roon Radio?
How will it be monetized and what will be the price or subscription cost?
What happens to personal data? Does it get monetized?
Is it interacting directly with one's streaming service or is it separate?

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Good questions, all of them.


1:Roon Radio is great but it streams and disappears. Sonic Oracle creates a permanent playlist directly in your Qobuz or Tidal library. Roon picks it up instantly and it's yours to keep forever.


2ricing is simple. Free tier to try it, then yearly at $24.99 or a one time lifetime license at $69.99. No monthly option.


3:On personal data, no data is sold, no profiles built for advertisers. You connect your streaming account, we create the playlist, that's it.


4:On integration, it works directly with your Qobuz or Tidal account. The playlist lands in your library and Roon sees it automatically, no extra steps.


Alessandro

 

[Timcognito]

Good questions, all of them.


1:Roon Radio is great but it streams and disappears. Sonic Oracle creates a permanent playlist directly in your Qobuz or Tidal library. Roon picks it up instantly and it's yours to keep forever.


2ricing is simple. Free tier to try it, then yearly at $24.99 or a one time lifetime license at $69.99. No monthly option.


3:On personal data, no data is sold, no profiles built for advertisers. You connect your streaming account, we create the playlist, that's it.


4:On integration, it works directly with your Qobuz or Tidal account. The playlist lands in your library and Roon sees it automatically, no extra steps.


Alessandro

Thank you, all good answers. I'll give it a try once I see the TOS and UA. Sounds promising. When is the estimated TOA?

 

[RickS]

Hi all, Alessandro here

I'm a developer and audiophile and i'm here to share this with you because I think this community will get it immediately.

I built Sonic Oracle (sonicoracle.ai) out of frustration with how streaming platforms handle discovery. Qobuz and Tidal have excellent sound quality but weak recommendation engines. And the best discovery tool that ever existed — Last.fm's Neighbor Radio — has been dead for years.

So in a nutshell here's what SonicOracle does:

- You enter a seed artist
- It queries multiple music databases to map listener taste patterns around that artist
- Returns up to 25 artist recommendations ranked by taste affinity (not sonic similarity — an important distinction)
- One click builds a permanent, editable playlist directly in your Qobuz or Tidal library
- Works immediately with whatever you use to play back — Audirvāna, Roon, any DAP or streamer connected to your account picks it up instantly — no syncing, no importing, it's just there waiting for you.

The distinction between taste affinity and sonic similarity matters more than it might seem. Sonic similarity finds artists that "sound like" your seed. Taste affinity finds artists loved by the same listeners — which surfaces cross-genre connections that acoustic matching misses entirely.

There's also a discovery dial with three stages: Familiar (closest connections), Balanced, and Adventurous (wider taste network, and more relaxed filers).
We have tested extensively and the results are quite incredible !

We ran beta for a few days on r/Qobuz — 5,000+ stations created just within few hours!

Launching very soon. Waitlist at sonicoracle.ai if anyone wants to be notified.

Happy to answer technical questions about how it works — within reason, some of the methodology is proprietary.

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