Originally Posted by JohnJohnJohn
Originally Posted by shlind
+1.

I would like to know what would be the "criteria" for a style to be complementary?
That would help me a lot in my own search. (I hardly never find what I am looking for).
Only to select the styles with the same filter settings will not work at all, it will only result in a huge list of styles with only a very few being a possible complementary if any at all.
So it would be interesting to now what would be the explicit critera for the musician to use to select a style as complementary?
(and if these criteria could be defined it would useful to have the styles/instruments marked upp so they can be used in a search)
I think this must be a human-musician-curated effort and even then it will be subjective.

The current option to locate a style by entering a song name really does not work well at all IMHO. It seems to work by simply providing a massive list of styles that roughly match the tempo, time sig, etc. I gave up on this feature long ago.

I fully agree. But I am wondering if it is possible for the "human-musician" to categorize what he is listening to that makes a style to be a candidate for a complementary, and is that something that can be catched and categorised? There must be something in the music in addition to the filter parameters that makes a style a candidate to to be a complementary. If there is a specific dimension, pattern or something else maybe that could be used to improve the search facility.
The current filters do not work at all for this I don't use it at all anymore.
So yes, It need to be a human-musician-curated effort, but could something be learnt from it?

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