Mach5/supersonic — Issue #14: New music content view by Genre/Artists/Album
Author: porkcharsui
Created: 2012-02-21 00:02:33+00:00
State: open
Labels: ux

[Original Subsonic forum](http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2367) starting the discussion

## Music content should be treated separately
Digital fingerprinting the collection can give quick meta data that would be otherwise unavailable for songs that are poorly tagged.

* Song recommendation based on an album or artist ('Pandora" style)
* Better browsing without manual tagging effort
* Year browing

## Barriers to adoption
[Echonest API access](http://the.echonest.com/) will most likely require that each installation have access to an API key. Due to [rate limiting](http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4/#rate-limits) of about 120 calls per minute, large collection scanning really forces