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Observed arrival · 2026-09-24

Nearfield turns tracks into a similarity map

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Editorial interest 78/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

Nearfield lets you build a graph of music tracks and explore connections using audio-feature similarity.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-24 issue.
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Listeners mapping connections between tracks
Worth noticing
Its graph uses weighted groups of audio features, including 13 MFCCs, rather than the separate similarity score used for initial lookups.

Field notes

The page describes a graph built from track fingerprints, with cosine similarity determining its edges and distances. It assigns weights to four feature groups—MFCCs, spectral shape, tempo, and dynamics—and says analysis averages and varies measurements across two 45-second segments. Initial search and lookups go through the cosine.club API, whose separate similarity score is not used to draw the graph.

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●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use

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