Music To My Ears
According to this story on PR Leap, an Isreali company (could it be the people putting porn on Sprocket?) has announced the release of a new product to stream mp3s to 3G cell phones. "MusicGenome, the leading expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Music Cognition, announced today the release of Smart DJ – a new innovative fun product for the global cellular market. Smart DJ offers 3G mobile phone users the ultimate in digital music experience, by creating a new online entertainment service that accurately analyzes listeners’ music preferences and then delivers a stream of mp3 songs totally in-sync with the listener’s taste with 80% success rate." It does not discuss the specifics of the technology employed, but it does claim to be better than products that employ Collaborative Filtering. The company's website does not appear to be compatible with Firefox for Mac OS X.
2 Comments:
It would seem that given the abundance of music data available and even online for personal edification (e.g. Live Plasma), 80% isn't a huge success. In fact, I could make a system where someone inputs 10 bands they enjoy, say, and I would return music drawn from those bands and bands within two or three steps in Live Plasma's graph. That approach would almost certainly give you a B average among users. Now, what I need in a system is something that understands that my interests wax and wane on a local and global scale. Why would I *always* want to listen to "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails?
Yahoo! Launch has a personalized radio station as well. I have been using it for a while - I'd give it a B (sometimes bordering on B+).
@Tom - It could be that these websites might have a semi-naive algorithm in use. One place that does a pretty good job of CF is netflix.com
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