https://cyanite.ai/
I came across this service the other day and it seems pretty useful. Basically, Cyanite is a free service that will analyze songs you upload and compare them to millions of other songs (I think on Spotify) and will automatically tag them and find other similar songs in the catalog.
This provides some immediate benefits to me personally:
- Automatic tagging is helpful because I don’t know what to classify my music a lot of the time so having an objective way to tag it can be useful rather than relying on what genre you think it is supposed to belong to.
- Finding similar songs is useful because it allows you to find reference tracks in the style of your song which can be difficult due to point #1. It also allows you to orient yourself from a marketing perspective because you know where your music falls in the spectrum and can target your audience better.
If you make super straight forward music that can be easily categorized then this probably isn’t super helpful, but for those of you that combine multiple genres or don’t know which one it fits under, this could save you a lot of time. Anyone else have experiences using this or similar tools?