Turn off writer's block by taking inspiration from original, unreleased songs in the style of any artist.
Uses Markov chains to generate lyrics based on any artist's existing work.
- Put your Genius API token in a top-level file name
token - Run
mongodto start MongoDB - Run
python3 app.pyto start the Flask server
- filter songs that aren't songs (tracklists, interviews)
- advanced options
- clean
- only include clean versions of songs?
- skip curse words?
- substitutes for curse words?
- force search for new songs
- line ending method
- mean centered normal
- median centered
- end-of-song character
- random sample
- clean
- artists
- genius_id: Genius' artist ID
- name: hyphenated lower case name
- songs: array of dictionaries
- title: title of song
- id: Genius' song ID
- url: url to Genius page with lyrics
- jobs
- songs
- id: Genius' song ID
- raw_text: as scraped from HTML
- link to source
- "songs" with track lists are an issue
- store n-gram chains in database
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/118241/calculate-text-width-with-javascript
- mongo automatically delete jobs
- add api exception for status()
- if artist is past TTL, refresh
- what to do about punctuation?
- ignore when building chain?
- advanced options dropdown
- song title generation
- put os.path.joins everywhere
- web interface
- filter songs/albums used to generate
- view table of artists with statistics
- option to include featured work
- button to update for artist? Not good if publicly facing.
- get lyrics for multiple songs in one request? big bottleneck...
- automatically filter live/different versions of songs
- if duplicates allowed, lyrics will be weighted heavier
- generate from multiple artists
- build chains more efficiently?
- rather than have a list of all words that come after each tuple, keep list of pairs of following words with frequency
- regex to split song into words?
- song list has some weird random songs
- writing credit
- when displaying songs, show relationship? (i.e. primary artist, feature, writer)
- better way of getting artist name
- e.g. One, The One, and O-N-E all go to the same page
- 'fingerprint conflict'?
- option to separate by verses/choruses/structural elements
- reuse 1 chorus throughout song
- randomly include bridge?
- replace BeautifulSoup with built-in parser: https://docs.python.org/3/library/html.parser.html
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