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High Tech Music Recommendations

May 3rd, 2005 · No Comments

“Sun Microsystems has unveiled a technology that will recommend songs to users based on an analysis of the music that they already enjoy. The technology analyses features such as rhythm and beat strength to categorise the music. It then searches for files with similar attributes.”

Kinda makes you want to splice the left channel of a song from Captain Beefheart’s “Trout Mask Replica” with the right channel of a song from The Shaggs “Philosophy of the World” just to see what recommendations you’d get.

Read more on this Sun research project….

Tags: Music Software

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