"Today's post shares 10 other recommended tools for music lovers from my fellow writer and friend, Chris Dalla Riva, who writes Can't Get Much Higher, a popular Substack focused on the intersection of music and data. I invited Chris to share with you his favorite resources for discovering, learning, and creating music. By day, Chris works at the music streaming service Audiomack. His debut book Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves comes out today, November 13, 2025, via Bloomsbury."
"Searching through WhoSampled is like looking at musical DNA. Based on crowdsourced information, the site allows you to see how songs are connected through samples, interpolations, and covers. This was an incredible resource for researching the decline of cover songs in my book. (FREE, but you can pay $3/month for additional features.) Discover new music Maintained by Spotify's former data alchemist Glenn McDonald, Every Noise maps all genres on Spotify. For any of the thousands of genres in Spotify's catalog, you can see four playlists."
Mobile sheet-music apps enable carrying classical scores and provide piano or orchestral accompaniment for solo instruments. Crowdsourced lyric-annotation sites offer line-by-line explanations and occasional artist contributions or videos. Sample-database platforms map musical relationships through samples, interpolations, and covers, with free access and optional paid features. Genre-mapping tools visualize thousands of genres and supply multiple curated playlists per genre, including broad overviews, beginner introductions, current fan favorites, and more obscure selections. These resources support music discovery, learning, and research by revealing lyrical meaning, musical lineage, stylistic contexts, and listening pathways.
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