The Music Collab Explorer is a web app for discovering collabs between musical artists.
Using data from the excellent MusicBrainz project, you can search for any artist and visualize their collabs in a dynamic graph.
- Search for an artist, and click one of the results to add them to the artist list.
- Artists in the list will be shown in the graph.
- Their collaborators will be shown in the graph as well, if the "Show only selected" checkbox is not checked.
- Double-click on any artist in the graph to view their collabs.
- All artists who have collabed are connected.
- Click on any graph node or edge to view more information.
- Clicking a node will list all the collab songs of that artist.
- Clicking an edge will list all the collab songs between the artists connected by the edge.
- Deno installed.
- A PostgreSQL database v16.1 or greater (a script is provided to help populate it with a dump from the MusicBrainz database).
Clone the repository:
git clone git@github.com:KaeruCT/music-collab-explorer.git
cd music-collab-explorerSet up env vars:
cp .env.example .envModify .env as needed to configure database credentials.
deno task devdeno task builddeno task startThis application requires a local copy of the MusicBrainz database.
- Navigate to the
setup/directory:cd setup/ - Run the database initialization script. The credentials must be edited in the script if they differ.
./init_db.sh
- (Optional) Remove superuser privileges from the MusicBrainz user:
ALTER USER musicbrainz WITH NOSUPERUSER;
- Improve artist images by using additional sources, only Wikimedia is used at the moment and it's missing many artists.
- Allow to play tracks within the visualization. Currently, the tracks are only Youtube search links.
- MusicBrainz for providing open music metadata. This project would be impossible without them. Please contribute!
- vis-network for the excellente graph visualization.