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With an eternity of music at my fingertips from Spotify, my music collection has grown beyond recognition. I used to rely on iTunes' album cover grid-view (see my pixel-art version) to browse music, but with so many albums it isn't very focused; often I choose music by association, thinking I'd like to listen to something that sounds like a mix of artist A and artist B.

This album relations applet is an attempt to solve this problem. It loads my highest ranked albums from Last.fm and attempts to arrange them by genre in a force based diagram. This is done by looking at the tags associated with each album, if two albums have many of the same tags they could be considered to have a high degree of association, so a strong attraction force is applied; conversely, if they have none of the same tags a repelling force is applied.

Higher ranked albums are bigger and act as visual markers for music styles, you can then zoom in to find related albums.

Launch the album relations applet