I built what Tidal and Qobuz won't. And people are loving it

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SonicOracle

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I'm Alessandro, solo developer and audiophile based in Italy.

I launched Sonic Oracle in April because music discovery on streaming platforms hasn't improved in years. "Similar Artists" gives you the same names you already know. Radio stations disappear when they're done. Nothing gets saved.
Sonic Oracle fills the gap. You type in an artist, pick a depth, and it builds a permanent playlist of connected artists saved directly to your Tidal or Qobuz library. Every playlist is permanent, fully editable, and shareable. Roon, Audirvana, Naim, Linn, Bluesound, WiiM, everything picks it up automatically. No syncing, no downloading, no friction. About 5-6 hours of music you've never heard, created in under a minute

The engine covers over 10 million artists. Essential playlists are genre-pure: a Miles Davis Essential returns only trumpet players. A Ramones Essential returns only punk. Balanced widens the circle. Adventurous crosses genre lines and surfaces artists no streaming platform will find for you.
No AI. No label deals pushing promoted content into your results. Every recommendation comes from real listener behavior. Every artist is a real person with a real discography. And the latest feature I just added is the Genre and Decade Discovery where you pick a genre, add a decade, hit Discover. No seed artist needed.

I got to over 300 paying subscribers with zero marketing budget.
I built because I needed it and couldn't find it anywhere else....turns out a lot of other people did too

Thanks to the feedback from audiophile communities, new features ship every week.

Free to try at https://sonicoracle.music/. Three playlists, no credit card needed.

QUICK UPDATE :
I’ve been heads down on something for the past few weeks and it’s live now. I believe this is a game changer for this industry.

The Vault is Sonic Oracle’s proprietary database. Built from the ground up over the past year. A separate track catalog with its own logic, its own connections, its own selection. No streaming platform has it. No other tool uses it and it changes how every playlist gets built.

Search for any artist on any streaming platform. The top tracks are the same for everyone. Same songs, same order. The popular stuff floats to the top and stays there.

The Vault ends this. Every single playlist is different. You run the same artist twice, you get two completely different sets of tracks. Deep cuts and hidden gems from across an artist’s full catalog.

Here’s what I’d suggest trying. Pick an artist you know inside and out. Run it with The Vault toggled on. Look at the tracks it pulls. Then switch to Popular and run the same artist. Popular gives you well-known tracks weighted by streaming numbers. It’s still a better version of what Tidal and Qobuz show you, because the artist selection behind it is Sonic Oracle’s engine, not theirs. But when you compare it to what The Vault found, you’ll hear why this took a year to build.

Alessandro
 
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It was not clear how you got to select Tidal in the youtube. I use Qubuz. Does the playlist stick in Qubuz permanently. Or do you have to open it, into Qobuz every time.

What about Euphany Stylus player.

Does it dig into new artist. Your Rolling Stones search turned up the same 70s 80s stuff I am boored of listening too. I did not see it showing "New" artist.
 
Hey,

To use Qobuz: on the app page, click Connect Qobuz instead of Tidal. The video happened to show Tidal but the process is the same. Here's the Qobuz-specific walkthrough:


The playlist saves permanently to your Qobuz account. It's yours. You can play it from any device that connects to Qobuz, including your Eversolo.


Euphony Stylus should work if it pulls playlists from your Qobuz account. Sonic Oracle creates a standard Qobuz playlist, so any player that reads your Qobuz library will see it.


For the Rolling Stones showing familiar artists: try setting the stage to Adventurous instead of Essential.
Essential stays close to what you already know, which for a band as big as the Stones means the usual names. Adventurous goes deeper and will surface artists you genuinely haven't heard before. That's where the real discovery happens.
 
It worked fine for me with Qobuz. Picked an artist, and voila, the playlist was made, and saved in my account.

Obviously I can learn to manipulate it more for whatever needs I can articulate. Even better, get some listening time in.

Easy enough to add, delete, reorder, the playlist once it’s in Qobuz.

Well done, excited to see where this goes.

If these options don’t exist, consider adding:

1) ability to exclude artists from the list as it’s generated.
2) ability to choose a playlist duration
3) perhaps an option to evaluate an already done playlist that has been user optimized, to better understand a user’s preferences.
4) allow some genre toggle(s) - some artists have wide ranges
4a) getting crazy here, but give a chat box along with an artist choice. Chat box would allow one to say, I really like xxx about Bohemian Rhapsody, after choosing Queen, giving more detailed info for the AI to work with.
 
Really glad it clicked for you, thanks for the kind words.

On your suggestions:

1) You can already do this! Each artist card has a skip button (the arrows icon) that swaps it for a different recommendation, and an X button that removes it entirely. Both work before you hit Create Playlist.

2) Playlist duration control is on my list. Right now the length scales with the number of artists and discovery depth, but a manual cap makes sense.

3) That's a fascinating idea, learning from a user-edited playlist to refine future recommendations. Noting it.

4) The adventure dial already does some of this. At Essential (left), you get artists closest to your seed's core genre. At Adventurous (right), it crosses into adjacent genres. Try sliding it around for the same artist, you'll get very different results.

Appreciate the detailed feedback, this is exactly the kind of input that shapes where Sonic Oracle goes next.

Alessandro
 
When I get in front of my laptop I will give it a try. You are asking a fair $$$ for a service that may be nice. Lately I have been looking for Qubuz playlist that are a capture of new stuff for the year. I am seeking fresh content.
 
I don't get it. Paid $29. Now going around and around in circles. Never able to get a playlist from sonic to Qobuz. Video does not make sense. Why don't these video have any naration to go along with the roving mouse.
 
There is no connect to sonic oracle in the qobuz bookmark bar. If I open sonic orical from the bookmarks bar, it simply takes me back to the beginning of the prcess. a circle of circles.
 
First pass and your software made an interesting list. I put in a very odd for me, Earth, Wind and Fire. It served up songs I had never heard.
It would be nice if you had a way to select a genera and not have to name a band. I do that on Qobuz at times.
 
You can do that, You can pick a genre and also a decade , no seed artist needed.
Sonic Oracle will create a playlist based on your genre/decade choice
 
Can I pick classical and ask for say 1800s. I know some people who catalog their classical by timer period, not composer. When I first heard it I though it unique. I then started to look at who came first. Sort of a way to understand whos music influenced who.
 
Love that idea. Right now the decade filters only go back to the 1930s, so 1800s isn't available yet.
But classical by time period (Baroque, Romantic, Early Modern) is a great use case I hadn't considered.

In the meantime, try seeding a composer from the era you're interested in. For example, start with Chopin or Liszt and the engine will surface other composers in their orbit. That's basically the influence map you're describing.
 
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