Hi all,
I have been working on a rhythm based game for some time for my masters project at University, and echonest has been a great help in this regard.
For one of my final features, I wanted to change some gameplay elements depending on the genre of the users chosen track. As there are so many genres, I was planning to pick 5 'main' genres and see which of these the users track genre is closest too and change the game accordingly. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find a way of getting the similarity between two specified genres, or a list of genres. I know that the 'similar' method in the genre API does something close to this, but I don't want to have build an entire genre map and store that within the game. If anyone has any idea how I could do this, or a better way that I could group the genres that would be fantatic!
Thanks in advance :)