BBC – Organizing music for organic discovery

Mathieu Triay Principal Software Engineer Andrew Wood Designer Orbit is our pilot for a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song by exploring recently played tracks from BBC Introducing — the BBC’s platform for unsigned and undiscovered music. Every track is a crossroads where you have to decide with your ears: do you want to find out what you’re listening to, or do you want to try a related track? You can quickly move through the spectrum of musical genres, discovering what interests you and moving past what doesn’t. There’s no AI and no recommendation algorithms — you decide. This article looks at how we organise music tracks behind the scenes to allow this kind of navigation. The other article in this series details the associated UX challenges. Try Orbit for yourself! Our music discovery service is open for you to find something new... Try now A provocation During a 6-month research project on young people and their music, podcast, and audio habits we ... Read full article.