Yes. 2+ years old could also be safe looking for generic genre. Also, too much compressed and lacks the natural "air" and analog noise of studio recordings

sure, but i mean different class of platforms, where quantity of streams dont matter or pay, this break the concept, bots ans spammer will not care.

you are right. New platforms must manual validate artists.

If you have any more constructive criticism, let me know here.

What there is, though, are many daily searches and listens — there just aren't enough registered artists.

OK, there aren't many registered indie artists yet, and they decide which searches they appear in from their artist dashboard. If it matches your search, they show up. 'No, I meant navigating within the site' — this could be done, yes.

Thank you for your comment. It's actually a search engine that uses the YouTube API; AI helps with certain tasks in the system for filtering and for obtaining more information about the artist you searched for on the same page. Filtering is done through multiple approaches simultaneously—patterns, text, track release years, etc. (though it's not 100% perfect, and we're gradually refining it).

I don’t know how you listened to the music, but on desktop (it’s designed more for desktop), there are no issues—you can open another tab, for example. On mobile, due to YouTube Music's limitations, if you navigate away, the music stops playing; there's nothing to be done about that.

It's in beta, so there are still things to improve. The main idea is to promote indie artists and rank them better when users search for mainstream music or genres, removing the logic based on stream counts, followers, etc., and rewarding activity over popularity.

Finally, about "there’s no obvious way to browse artists" — I didn’t quite understand you. There is a search box. From the beginning, the idea was for users to search for what they want to listen to without being overwhelmed. I find it very tiring that current platforms show thousands of artists on the front page; there’s an oversaturation of information in that sense, and in the end, you don’t know what to click play on.

I understand this system isn’t for everyone, and that’s fine—it’s not a project aimed at making money. In any case, thank you for trying it out and for your feedback, which is always valuable.

It Is really a normal search engine, looks like a chatbot.

Starting a community also, ANTI AI MUSIC : https://lemmy.world/c/AntiAIMusic