Mar 20, 2026
Hi all, Alessandro here
I'm a developer and audiophile and i'm here to share this with you because I think this community will get it immediately.
I built Sonic Oracle (sonicoracle.ai) out of frustration with how streaming platforms handle discovery. Qobuz and Tidal have excellent sound quality but weak recommendation engines. And the best discovery tool that ever existed — Last.fm's Neighbor Radio — has been dead for years.
So in a nutshell here's what SonicOracle does:
- You enter a seed artist
- It queries multiple music databases to map listener taste patterns around that artist
- Returns up to 25 artist recommendations ranked by taste affinity (not sonic similarity — an important distinction)
- One click builds a permanent, editable playlist directly in your Qobuz or Tidal library
- Works immediately with whatever you use to play back — Audirvāna, Roon, any DAP or streamer connected to your account picks it up instantly — no syncing, no importing, it's just there waiting for you.
The distinction between taste affinity and sonic similarity matters more than it might seem. Sonic similarity finds artists that "sound like" your seed. Taste affinity finds artists loved by the same listeners — which surfaces cross-genre connections that acoustic matching misses entirely.
There's also a discovery dial with three stages: Familiar (closest connections), Balanced, and Adventurous (wider taste network, and more relaxed filers).
We have tested extensively and the results are quite incredible !
We ran beta for a few days on r/Qobuz — 5,000+ stations created just within few hours!
Launching very soon. Waitlist at sonicoracle.ai if anyone wants to be notified.
Happy to answer technical questions about how it works — within reason, some of the methodology is proprietary.