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BOIL THE FROG

Create a (nearly) seamless playlist between (almost) any two artists

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BOIL THE FROG GALLERY



FAVORITES

 * Miley Cyrus to Miles Davis
 * Justin Bieber to Jimi Hendrix
 * Patti Smith to the Smiths
 * Elvis to Elvis
 * The Carter Family to Rammstein
 * Kanye West to Taylor Swift
 * Cage the Elephant to John Cage
 * Lorde to God is an Astronaut


RECENT BOIL THE FROGS

 * From Charlotte Church to BABYMETAL
 * From Czerwone Gitary to AJR
 * From Billie Eilish to AJR
 * From Weekend to AJR
 * From Camille Saint-Saëns to Muddy Waters
 * From Michael Jackson to AJR
 * From Eminem to AJR
 * From AJR to Imagine Dragons
 * From Tom Waits to Sayuri
 * From slenderbodies to Hozier
 * From Antonio Vivaldi to P!nk
 * From My Chemical Romance to Ariana Grande
 * From Melanie Martinez to Mitski
 * From Antonio Vivaldi to Tom Waits
 * From Red Hot Chili Peppers to King Crimson
 * From Aaron Gillespie to Foo Fighters
 * From Lady Gaga to slenderbodies
 * From Led Zeppelin to Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * From Red Hot Chili Peppers to Nirvana
 * From Chuck Berry to Rage Against The Machine
 * From Tyler, The Creator to Alex G
 * From Lady Gaga to Hozier
 * From Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones
 * From Led Zeppelin to The Beatles
 * From Led Zeppelin to Taylor Swift
 * From Led Zeppelin to Cream
 * From Glass Animals to Lady Gaga
 * From Knxwledge to Bo Burnham
 * From September to Bo Burnham
 * From Ludovico Einaudi to Five Finger Death Punch
 * From Porno for Pyros to Paramore
 * From Yellowcard to Weezer
 * From Paramore to Blind Channel
 * From Kikuo to Mother Mother
 * From Mitski to beabadoobee
 * From Oh Wonder to Billie Eilish
 * From Hollywood Undead to Taylor Swift
 * From Bring Me The Horizon to Metallica
 * From Kikuo to The Happy Fits
 * From toe to Delta Sleep
 * From Oh Wonder to Glass Animals
 * From Taylor Swift to alt-J
 * From Grizzly Bear to Interpol
 * From Scott Joplin to Aimer
 * From beabadoobee to Cavetown
 * From Mitski to Lana Del Rey
 * From Scott Joplin to Hozier
 * From Taylor Swift to Leathermouth
 * From Gareth Coker to Leathermouth
 * From Pavement to Leathermouth
 * From Alice In Chains to slenderbodies
 * From Miku Hatsune to The Crane Wives
 * From David Bowie to Nirvana
 * From Nirvana to Radiohead
 * From Franz Ferdinand to Marina and the Diamonds
 * From Lemon Demon to Muse
 * From Lemon Demon to Our Lady Peace
 * From Nirvana to System Of A Down
 * From CG5 to Metallica
 * From System Of A Down to Nirvana
 * From Miku Hatsune to Metallica
 * From Miku Hatsune to My Chemical Romance
 * From Miku Hatsune to Death Spells
 * From Radiohead to Metallica
 * From Miku Hatsune to Leathermouth
 * From Weezer to Metallica
 * From Grizzly Bear to The Young Rascals
 * From Grizzly Bear to 311
 * From Liz Phair to 311
 * From Liz Phair to The King Khan & BBQ Show
 * From Grizzly Bear to The King Khan & BBQ Show
 * From Gym Class Heroes to OutKast
 * From Kis Grófo to Bladee
 * From Grizzly Bear to Animal Collective
 * From Kis Grófo to Thaiboy Digital
 * From Grizzly Bear to Liz Phair
 * From Mogwai to King Diamond
 * From Alvvays to The Kinks
 * From Daniel Bedingfield to Sonique
 * From Texas to Stiff Little Fingers
 * From Robbie Williams to Fit For An Autopsy
 * From Twenty One Pilots to Pierce The Veil
 * From A Perfect Circle to Deftones
 * From Deftones to A Perfect Circle
 * From Poor Mans Poison to Pierce The Veil
 * From Amy Winehouse to Willie Nelson
 * From Tion Wayne to AJ Tracey
 * From Tion Wayne to Bugzy Malone
 * From Eazy-E to Tion Wayne
 * From Jesper Kyd to Low Roar
 * From Roo Panes to SEVENTEEN
 * From Roo Panes to Zucchero
 * From SEGA SOUND TEAM to Low Roar
 * From blink-182 to Hans Zimmer
 * From Willie Nelson to Amy Winehouse
 * From Taylor Swift to Twenty One Pilots
 * From Katy Perry to Dimmu Borgir
 * From Weezer to Lady Gaga
 * From Stereolab to Gatecreeper
 * From Calabrese to Amon Amarth


POPULAR BOIL THE FROGS

 * From Weezer to Lady Gaga
 * From Kanye West to Taylor Swift
 * From Miley Cyrus to Miles Davis
 * From Elvis Presley to Elvis Costello
 * From Cage The Elephant to John Cage
 * From Weezer to Die Prinzen
 * From Justin Bieber to Jimi Hendrix
 * From Lady Gaga to Napalm Death
 * From Mindless Self Indulgence to C418
 * From Taylor Swift to Lady Gaga
 * From David Bowie to Conan Gray
 * From Taylor Swift to Sabrina Carpenter
 * From Enya to Slipknot
 * From The Living Tombstone to Lemon Demon
 * From Kendrick Lamar to Drake
 * From Hozier to Kesha
 * From AJR to Nirvana
 * From The Dreadnoughts to Bruno Mars
 * From Tally Hall to Lemon Demon
 * From Lana Del Rey to Taylor Swift
 * From Lana Del Rey to Kate Bush
 * From Taylor Swift to Hozier
 * From Patti Smith to The Smiths
 * From Kanye West to Tyler, The Creator
 * From Hozier to Taylor Swift
 * From Melanie Martinez to Mitski
 * From Drake to Kendrick Lamar
 * From The Carter Family to Rammstein
 * From Taylor Swift to My Chemical Romance
 * From Tyler, The Creator to Travis Scott
 * From Taylor Swift to Kanye West
 * From Eminem to Dr. Dre
 * From Noah Kahan to Taylor Swift
 * From Mitski to Cavetown
 * From Lemon Demon to Mitski
 * From Limp Bizkit to Big & Rich
 * From Charlotte Church to BABYMETAL
 * From Taylor Swift to Lana Del Rey
 * From Taylor Swift to Billie Eilish
 * From Eminem to Lady Gaga
 * From Depeche Mode to Weezer
 * From Mitski to TV Girl
 * From Mitski to beabadoobee
 * From Leonard Cohen to The Oh Hellos
 * From Mogwai to King Diamond
 * From Slipknot to Taylor Swift
 * From Porno for Pyros to Paramore
 * From Kanye West to Kendrick Lamar
 * From Cosmo Sheldrake to Lemon Demon
 * From Taylor Swift to Ariana Grande
 * From Conan Gray to Taylor Swift
 * From John Williams to Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories
 * From Taylor Swift to Taylor Swift
 * From The Beatles to Imagine Dragons
 * From Yellowcard to Weezer
 * From Kuraiinu to Lemon Demon
 * From Coldplay to Mitski
 * From Judy Collins to Audrey Hepburn
 * From Deco*27 to Mitski
 * From Måneskin to Lady Gaga
 * From David Bowie to Prince
 * From Ringo Starr to AJR
 * From Mitski to Lana Del Rey
 * From Billie Eilish to AJR
 * From Kendrick Lamar to Tyler, The Creator
 * From Taylor Swift to John Mayer
 * From Taylor Swift to Conan Gray
 * From Miku Hatsune to My Chemical Romance
 * From bbno$ to Yung Gravy
 * From Sabrina Carpenter to Taylor Swift
 * From Daft Punk to Enslaved
 * From Melanie Martinez to Melanie Martinez
 * From The Beach Boys to Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * From BTS to KARD
 * From Taylor Swift to Harry Styles
 * From Coal Chamber to The Smashing Pumpkins
 * From Kanye West to Drake
 * From Taizé to Mitski
 * From The Outlaws to Stevie Ray Vaughan
 * From Miku Hatsune to The Crane Wives
 * From Machine Girl to Édith Piaf
 * From Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to The Ruts
 * From Tyler, The Creator to Frank Ocean
 * From My Chemical Romance to Ariana Grande
 * From Coldplay to OneRepublic
 * From Elizaveta to Tennyson
 * From Megadeth to Britney Spears
 * From Imagine Dragons to Muse
 * From Crusher-P to CG5
 * From Pierce The Veil to Mitski
 * From Sleep Token to Falling In Reverse
 * From Weezer to Elliott Smith
 * From Weezer to Lemon Demon
 * From Cavetown to Mitski
 * From Melanie Martinez to TV Girl
 * From Weezer to Weezer
 * From AJR to Bag Raiders
 * From Björk to Lorde
 * From Ben Platt to Melissa Etheridge
 * From Cake to LCD Soundsystem


ABOUT BOIL THE FROG


Boil the Frog lets you create a playlist of tracks that gradually takes you from
one music style to another. It's like the proverbial frog in the pot of water.
If you heat up the pot slowly enough, the frog will never notice that he's being
made into a stew and jump out of the pot. With a Boil the frog playlist you can
do the same, but with music. You can generate a playlist that will take the
listener from one style of music to the other, without the listener ever
noticing that they are being made into a stew.



HOW DOES IT WORK?

To create a Boil the Frog playlist, just type in the names of two artists and a
playlist will be generated that takes you gradually, step by step, from the
first artist to the second artist. You can click on any track to hear the track.
Click on the first track to hear the whole playlist. If you don't like a
particular artist you can route around that particular artist by clicking the
'bypass' button. The 'New Track' button will select a different track for an
artist.

Boil the Frog plays 30 second versions of your tracks. When you find a playlist
you like you can save it to Spotify to listen to the full-length versions.


HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES

 * Miley Cyrus to Miles Davis
 * Justin Bieber to Jimi Hendrix
 * Mickey Mouse to deadmau5
 * Patti Smith to the Smiths
 * Elvis to Elvis
 * The Carter Family to Rammstein
 * Kanye West to Taylor Swift


HOW DOES IT REALLY WORK?

To create this app, Spotify artist similarity info is used to build an artist
similarity graph of about 100,000 of the most popular artists. Each artist in
the graph is connected to it's most similar neighbors according to the Spotify's
artist similarity algorithm.




When a playlist between two artists is created, the graph is used to find the
path between the two artists. The path isn't necessarily the shortest path
through the graph. Instead, priority is given to paths that travel through
artists of similar popularity. If you start and end with a popular artist, you
are more likely to find a path that takes you though other popular artists, and
if you start with a long-tail artist you will likely find a path through other
long-tail artists.

Once the path of artists is found, we need to select the best tracks for the
playlist. To do this, we pick a well-known track for each artist that minimizes
the difference in energy between this track, the previous track and the next
track.

Once we have selected the best tracks, we build a playlist using Spotify's nifty
web api.


WHO MADE THIS?

This app was built by Paul Lamere. If you like this sort of thing you may be
interested in my blog at Music Machinery.



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