Typesense songs search demo
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Typesense songs search demo
A site to instant-search 32 Million Songs in milliseconds
songs-search.typesense.org#instant search#typesense#song search#musicbrainz#search-as-you-type
16points
5comments
#1,896of 3,028 in 2020
Top 63%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.
Execution: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Seems neat and fast
From 1 comment
Seems neat but the quality of the results didn't seem very high. "taylor swift style" -> no correct results lot of taylor swift searches seem to just surface "cardigan", whatever…
purplecats on HN
Objections
Search result quality is poor, e.g. 'taylor swift style' returns no correct results
From 1 comment
Seems neat but the quality of the results didn't seem very high. "taylor swift style" -> no correct results lot of taylor swift searches seem to just surface "cardigan", whatever…
purplecats on HN
Results over-surface certain songs like 'cardigan'
From 1 comment
Seems neat but the quality of the results didn't seem very high. "taylor swift style" -> no correct results lot of taylor swift searches seem to just surface "cardigan", whatever…
purplecats on HN
Requests
Add a popularity score to rank results
From 1 comment
The MusicBrainz dataset unfortunately does not have a popularity score and so I've only ordered results by their text_match_score and release_date. So songs that were more…
jabo on HN
Questions
Is song data stored locally or fetched from MusicBrainz live?
From 1 comment
does song data on your db or you're requesting to musicbrainz instantly?
hakkikonu on HN
Alternatives named
Algolia
From 1 comment
Why? - A friend and I are working on an open source alternative to Algolia called Typesense [1]. I kept getting asked how large a dataset Typesense can handle. So I built a demo…
jabo on HN