resources/instructions.md

Instructions

1. Formulate a search query with description of a music genre you would like to listen to. Expected format is described below.
2. Explore two generated recommendation rankings: one is created by my system, one is generated using gemini-2.0-flash. Order is randomized each run.
3. Determine which ranking you prefer more.
4. Vote for your choice.
5. Wait for refresh and repeat as many times as you want.

Expected Query Format

• The system was designed to support 3 categories of music genre descriptors:
  • Subjective: Emotional & perceptual qualities, desired inner feeling (melancholic, energetic)
  • Purpose-Based: Listening setting, context, suitable activities, scenario (party, workout)
  • Technical: Musical & production attributes, HOW the sound is made (instrumentation, timbre, tempo, lo-fi)
• Other descriptors are out of scope of the current implementation:
  • I kindly ask you to only use the above 3 categories for your queries
  • Usage of cultural, historical, etc. descriptors can lead to suboptimal results
• You can make the descriptors as complex and poetic as you want, but I kindly ask you to limit your query to a couple of sentences

Query Examples

• Music for deep relaxation with echoing sounds and heavy bass, perfect for unwinding after along day
• Music that feels like the echo of a forgotten world—slow, sorrowful. Guitars and distant vocals create the sensation of a long, drifting sleep on the edge of melancholy and oblivion.A soundtrack to isolation, it slowly pulls you into the depths of existential despair.
• Raw and filled with aggression, high-energy drums, mosh-pit vibes, high bpm, guitars
• Music to study to, relaxing, chill with calm drums, some piano, and suitable for background
• Creamy and cozy, suitable for evenings with loved ones
• Dreamy instrumental music for midnight melancholia