Software Designed to Help You Pick New Tunes - Yahoo! News

Software Designed to Help You Pick New Tunes - Yahoo! News

5 January 2006

Gracenote said at CES today that by midyear it will offer a product for online music stores that will let them make smarter music recommendations for their customers. The basic goal is to go beyond the names of artists and genres to help people find music they like, instead analyzing the properties of the music, such as its rhythm, tempo, and energy level.
I think they need to look at tribal affiliations. Motown Pop and Psychedelic Pop may be similar on one level, but the crowd might only cross that bridge in one direction. Music is about cultural identity, and genre is often just a stand-in for that tribal affiliation. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060105/tc_pcworld/124227

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