u/panyc77

What's new in Sonic Oracle: May update

What's new in Sonic Oracle: May update

Hey,

for those who still don't know Sonic Oracle: it's a music discovery tool for Tidal and Qobuz. You type in an artist, pick a depth (Essential, Balanced, or Adventurous), and it builds a permanent playlist of connected artists saved directly to your library. Not a station. Not an algorithm pushing what a platform wants you to hear. Real discoveries based on what listeners with similar taste enjoy.

Big round of updates this week. Here's what shipped:

My Discoveries is new. Your search history is now saved. Every discovery you've made, all in one place. Tap any to revisit it.

Click-to-discover lets you click any artist in your results to start a new search from them. Chain discoveries together until you land on something you never knew existed.

Track variety is improved. Playlists now feature different tracks each time, even for the same artist. Run the same search twice, get fresh songs both times.

Speed. Discovery results are near-instant. Repeat playlists create in about 1 second.

Deeper database. Coverage expanded to nearly 3 million artists and over 3 million albums.

Better niche results. Obscure seeds that previously returned too few matches now pull back stronger results.

K-pop, J-pop, C-pop. Full genre coverage for Asian pop including city pop, visual kei, and more.

Landing page refresh. Better mobile layout and updated social previews when sharing links.

More coming. As always, let me know what's working and what's not.

I built this because I personally needed it and nothing like it existed. Still a solo developer, still shipping improvements every week.

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

Alessandro

u/panyc77 — 3 days ago
▲ 6 r/TIdaL

What's new in Sonic Oracle: May update

Hey,

for those who still don't know Sonic Oracle: it's a music discovery tool for Tidal and Qobuz. You type in an artist, pick a depth (Essential, Balanced, or Adventurous), and it builds a permanent playlist of connected artists saved directly to your library. Not a station. Not an algorithm pushing what a platform wants you to hear. Real discoveries based on what listeners with similar taste enjoy.

Big round of updates this week. Here's what shipped:

My Discoveries is new. Your search history is now saved. Every discovery you've made, all in one place. Tap any to revisit it.

Click-to-discover lets you click any artist in your results to start a new search from them. Chain discoveries together until you land on something you never knew existed.

Track variety is improved. Playlists now feature different tracks each time, even for the same artist. Run the same search twice, get fresh songs both times.

Speed. Discovery results are near-instant. Repeat playlists create in about 1 second.

Deeper database. Coverage expanded to nearly 3 million artists and over 3 million albums.

Better niche results. Obscure seeds that previously returned too few matches now pull back stronger results.

K-pop, J-pop, C-pop. Full genre coverage for Asian pop including city pop, visual kei, and more.

Landing page refresh. Better mobile layout and updated social previews when sharing links.

More coming. As always, let me know what's working and what's not.

I built this because I personally needed it and nothing like it existed. Still a solo developer, still shipping improvements every week.

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

Alessandro

u/panyc77 — 3 days ago

Sonic Oracle update: click-to-discover

Sonic Oracle is an independent product, not affiliated with Roon.

Quick update. I added click-to-discover to Sonic Oracle. When your results come back, click any artist in the list to run a new search from them. Chain one discovery into the next without going back to the search bar.

Say you find someone interesting buried in an Adventurous playlist. Click their name and go deeper from there. Every playlist lands directly in your Tidal or Qobuz library and your Roon system picks up automatically.

Free to try at sonicoracle.music.

Three playlists, no credit card needed.

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 7 days ago
▲ 1 r/TIdaL

New Sonic Oracle feature: click any artist to keep discovering

You search for an artist, get a set of connections, and now if one of them catches your eye, you click their name and run a new search from them. Chain searches together until you find something you never knew existed.

This was already in the works, but a user request pushed it to the top of the list. Shipped the same day.

Free to try at sonicoracle.music

Three playlists, no credit card needed.

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 8 days ago
▲ 1 r/wiim

Sonic Oracle has a new home

Quick update. Sonic Oracle has a new domain: sonicoracle.music

The old .ai domain kept giving people the impression this is an AI product. It's not. The engine is built on real listener data, not machine learning or generative AI. The .music domain says what it is.

Same product, same account, same engine. Old links redirect automatically.

Your Wiim will pick up automatically any new playlist created on your Tidal/Qobuz account, no download, no file transfer, no syncing

Free to try. Three playlists, no credit card needed.

https://sonicoracle.music

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 10 days ago

Sonic Oracle has a new home

Quick update. Sonic Oracle has a new domain: sonicoracle.music

The old .ai domain kept giving people the impression this is an AI product. It's not. The engine is built on real listener data, not machine learning or generative AI. The .music domain says what it is.

Same product, same account, same engine. Old links redirect automatically.

Your Eversolo will pick up automatically any new playlist created on your Tidal/Qobuz account, no download, no file transfer, no syncing

Free to try. Three playlists, no credit card needed.

https://sonicoracle.music

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 10 days ago
▲ 0 r/TIdaL

Sonic Oracle has a new home

Quick update. Sonic Oracle has a new domain: sonicoracle.music

The old .ai domain kept giving people the impression this is an AI product. It's not. The engine is built on real listener data, not machine learning or generative AI. The .music domain says what it is.

Same product, same account, same engine. Old links redirect automatically.

Free to try. Three playlists, no credit card needed.

https://sonicoracle.music

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 10 days ago

Sonic Oracle has a new home

Quick update. Sonic Oracle has a new domain: sonicoracle.music

The old .ai domain kept giving people the impression this is an AI product. It's not. The engine is built on real listener data, not machine learning or generative AI. The .music domain says what it is.

Same product, same account, same engine. Old links redirect automatically.

Free to try. Three playlists, no credit card needed.

https://sonicoracle.music

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 10 days ago
▲ 0 r/TIdaL

Sonic Oracle update: new pricing, and what your feedback changed

Two weeks ago I posted a seed challenge here and the response blew me away. 5,000+ views, dozens of artists tested, and a lot of honest feedback about what the engine got right and where it missed.

Since then I've made some changes based on what this community told me:

The pricing is now $9.99/yr or $29.99 lifetime. Early supporters who paid more got credits for the difference, and yearly subscribers were upgraded to lifetime.

Adventurous depth is now a paid feature. Free users still get 3 playlists with Essential and Balanced. Adventurous is where the cross-genre connections live, the ones where the music has nothing in common sonically but the listeners do.

The engine is being tuned everyday from your feedback. If you tried it during the seed challenge and ran into gaps, it's worth another look.

I also started a blog with some deeper thoughts on why streaming discovery is broken and how taste affinity works differently: https://sonicoracle.ai/blog

https://sonicoracle.ai

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 11 days ago

Sonic Oracle update: new pricing and what's next

Quick update for those who've been following along. A few things have changed.

The pricing is now $9.99/yr or $29.99 lifetime. Every early supporter who paid the original price got a credit for the difference, and every yearly subscriber was upgraded to lifetime at no cost. The people who showed up first should come out ahead.

Adventurous depth is now a paid feature. Free users still get 3 playlists with Essential and Balanced depths. If you've been curious about the cross-genre side of the engine, Adventurous is where the interesting connections live.

A major new platform integration is in the works. More on this soon.

Playlists still land directly in your Tidal or Qobuz library, ready to play through your Eversolo the moment they're created.

I also started a blog if anyone wants to read more about the thinking behind the engine: https://sonicoracle.ai/blog

Thanks to everyone here who's been supportive. This community has been one of the best from day one.

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 14 days ago
▲ 0 r/wiim

Sonic Oracle update: new pricing and what's next

Quick update for those who've been following along. A few things have changed.

The pricing is now $9.99/yr or $29.99 lifetime. Every early supporter who paid the original price got a credit for the difference, and every yearly subscriber was upgraded to lifetime at no cost. The people who showed up first should come out ahead.

Adventurous depth is now a paid feature. Free users still get 3 playlists with Essential and Balanced depths. If you've been curious about the cross-genre side of the engine, Adventurous is where the interesting connections live.

A major new platform integration is in the works. More on this soon.

Playlists still land directly in your Tidal or Qobuz library, ready to play through Wiim the moment they're created.

I also started a blog if anyone wants to read more about the thinking behind the engine: https://sonicoracle.ai/blog

Thanks to everyone here who's been supportive. This community has been one of the best from day one.

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 14 days ago

Quick update for those who've been following along. A few things have changed.

The pricing is now $9.99/yr or $29.99 lifetime. Every early supporter who paid the original price got a credit for the difference, and every yearly subscriber was upgraded to lifetime at no cost. The people who showed up first should come out ahead.

Adventurous depth is now a paid feature. Free users still get 3 playlists with Essential and Balanced depths. If you've been curious about the cross-genre side of the engine, Adventurous is where the interesting connections live.

A major new platform integration is in the works. More on this soon.

Playlists still land directly in your Tidal or Qobuz library, ready to play through Roon the moment they're created.

I also started a blog if anyone wants to read more about the thinking behind the engine: https://sonicoracle.ai/blog

Thanks to everyone here who's been supportive. This community has been one of the best from day one.

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 16 days ago
▲ 0 r/TIdaL

I built Sonic Oracle to find artists through taste affinity, not "sounds like" matching. It looks at who listens to your favorite artist and what else those listeners love. The connections it surfaces are different from what Tidal recommends, especially when you push the depth higher.

Give me an artist and pick a depth:

  • Essential (tight, genre-pure)
  • Balanced (wider, mix of familiar and surprising)
  • Adventurous (cross-genre, the results get weird in a good way)

I'll run it and share the results here.

Free to try yourself at https://sonicoracle.ai. Three full playlists, no account, no credit card.

Alessandro

reddit.com
u/panyc77 — 22 days ago