BBC Research & DevelopmentMar 25, 2025

Orbit is our pilot for a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song by exploring recently played tracks from BBC Introducing!

Find out how machine learning helped us to organise *thousands* of tracks to let you find your next favourite song:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-organise-analysis/

Then read about the design challenges of creating a way to explore music genres and styles... our experiment is called Orbit - and you can read about it and try it out below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-design/

Organising music for organic discovery

Details on how we organised thousands of tracks to build a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song from BBC Introducing acts.

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@BBCRD THANK YOU for calling it "machine learning" and not jumping on the "everything has to be called AI" band wagon!

(And thank you for the cool research as well, obviously!)

Mar 25, 2025 at 6:36pmWeb