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What's new in Sonic Oracle: May update
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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 — 7 days ago
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Equipment needed when using Cat6 cable from TV to WiiM Amp (complete newbie)

We recently renovated our patio and took the opportunity to have it wired so that we could have two outdoor speakers and the tv connected to a WiiM Amp. The tv to amp connection was supposed to be via an HDMI cable but I discovered that they used Cat6 instead for some reason.

As I understand it from the research I’ve done, I’d need an HDMI extender (both sender and receiver). My understanding of the connection process is:

TV > HDMI extender (sender) via HDMI cable > sender to receiver via Cat6 > receiver to WiiM Amp via HDMI cable.

Is that accurate and, if so, would this be sufficient for the HDMI extender?
https://a.co/d/0eqbzwG3

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u/Lookn4Knowledge — 8 days ago
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AirPlay broken again (not pro model)

AirPlay won’t connect to devices without a password which has never been set and is turned off in Home. If I remove one of the devices from home, I cannot re-add it to Home because again it asks for a password which does not exist and has never been set. As a result, I cannot use AirPlay to any of devices. AirPlay worked fine on all of them until I tried it this afternoon. I am beyond pissed off. The only reason I got these devices was to stream music to them via AirPlay. Is there a standing solution to this problem? I couldn’t find one in the forums. This seems to be something new that’s happening in the past few weeks or month. I 100% blame WiiM for fucking up my devices with mandatory firmware updates. The devices are worthless and I’ve wasted 3 hours trying to troubleshoot them.

equipment like this needs to “just work” and not be a fucking tech-support project.

I submitted a Support ticket but I’m pissed off about having to sit around and wait for this company to get back to me (assuming there is a solution), wasting my time, and making my devices inoperable.

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u/ej788 — 10 days ago