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Searching for Music

Are there songs that you never want to dance to again?

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Update (July 2024): While the content of this post is still accurate, please read the more recent post “What is the difference between adding a song to Favorites and voting on a  Song’s Danceability?” for more up-to-date and detailed information about this feature.

I know for me there are a few songs that I spent way too much time listening to while learning choreography or cutting medleys.  I never want to hear them again, much less dance to them. And as much as I love music, there are some songs that I just don’t like right off the bat.  So I don’t want either of these showing up time after time because other people find them to be particularly good Rumba or Foxtrot music.

Up to now that’s been a bit of a problem with the music4dance site since there wasn’t a way to explicitly like or not like a song, Everything was based on collective voting to match a song with a dance.  But today I’ve added a feature where you can like and dislike a song.  Then by default when you’re signed into the site, you won’t see those songs in your searches.

While I was at it, I added a few additional ways to filter searches based on how you’ve tagged and liked songs.  Check them out on the Advanced Search page (remember you have to be signed into your account and have tagged or liked some songs for this to be useful).

And while you’re thinking about this, I have a question.  What is a reasonable opposite of ‘like’ in this case?  I’ve been using ‘not like’, but hate seems like it might be more accurate.  Unlike and dislike were other options.  But none of these seem quite right.  If you’ve got any ideas, please comment on this post and let me know.

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Searching for music to dance to just got a whole lot easier

Update (July 2024): This underlying search mechanism described in this series of posts is still in place and functions as described here, but the user interface has changed. Please see the Simple Search and Advanced Search documentation for how the current user interface works.

Music4Dance was conceived to help dancers find music that inspires them to dance.  My posts about this from last year are still right on point even if the screenshots are a bit out of date.  I have been adding capabilities to the music4dance advanced search control as they are suggested and as time permits.  And it got a bit out of control, so to speak.  As of yesterday, that control looked like this:

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And now thanks to some hard work by the fabulous music4dance intern, the advanced search form looks like this:

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Much improved, no?  Basic documentation is available here and we’ll be updating the rest of the affected documentation shortly.  We’re also looking at other advanced search features.  Saving your searches and making it easier to filter on songs that you have tagged  are two of our top candidates.  What else would you like to see?  Please let me know by leaving feedback in the comments section of this page or via our feedback form.