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New Computer Program Determines "Hitability"
illuminatedwax writes "It looks like the process of homogenizing the mediocrity of Top 40 radio is going to be aided by a computer, according to an
article from the Music Industry News Network. Polyphonic HMI has developed a new program called Hit Song Science (HSS) and compares "underlying mathematical patterns" in current hit songs and compares them to a new song to determine if it will become a hit or not. Looks like we can expect even more of the same old junk being recycled for us on the radio, although the article claims that it 'will allow new sounds and styles to flourish.'"
increases "hitability" in elementary school.
having Britney Spears rerecord the same song over, and over, and over and . . .Arrrrgh! Just shoot me now.
KFG
Do they give it all the songs ever, and it says "not a hit" for all of them, and it's 90% correct, because 90% of songs are worthless?
Hell, I could write that.
#!/bin/sh
echo "not a hit"
#!/bin/bash
grep -i "britney" song_titles.txt
Imagine if these "mathematical patterns and structures in music that until now have been hidden" can be extracted and then applied to existing recordings which haven't done as well as the labels hoped or to new recordings in order to enhance their success subliminally. As an example, what if these secret signals were applied to remaster William Shatner's old recordings?
You mean: why would they need to *spend money* on a computer to tell them what record companies are *giving them money* to know?
If only they can make a program to predict "slashdotability", their server wouldn't have to suffer like this.
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if you need a computer to tell you that a song is good...
well...i can tell you right now the song isnt going to be a hit
"...and there goes the last DJ..."
Love?!?
Who's been tampering with the machine!
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for me, ``hitability'' doesn't mean the same at all.
Reading the title made me wonder if a computer was able to do some kind of ``Hot or Not'' evaluation of a picture.
A message from the system administrator: 'I've upped my priority. Now up yours.'
It listens to female pop singers and prints out "I'd hit it" if it thinks the woman is hot...
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Input Breast size:
34C
Hit!
This may be the excuse to buy a CD/MP3 player. Then I can listen to the hits my mom picks out for me.
A third of the way down (Jan 23 in fact) http://www.bangedup.com/archives/z ard. jpg
Is a link titled "Any idiot can rap"
and it leads to
http://www.bangedup.com/archives/MicroRBHitWi
[ ] Yes
[ ] Yes
YAW
Your head of state is a corrupt weasel, I hope you're happy.
People, people, we already HAVE this. Observe circumstancial evidence:
Program start: Logic
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Marylin Manson was a hit.
Marylin Manson plays guitar
Marylin Manson has long hair
Marylin Manson is considered "rock".
Avril Lavigne plays guitar and has long hair
Avril Lavigne is rock.
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End program: Logic
Obviously it is in its very early stages, but you know, the record companies may just leave it that way since they make more money off the stupid people.
Idea --
They could package the program up and sell it off the shelf as a porn filter! If it can accurately determine 'Hitability', it could save millions of masturbators from potential deflation upon running across a photograph of some ghastly beast.
Hell, they'd probably make enough money that they'd stop caring about music piracy!
~GoRK
Queen, anyone?
No thanks.
I want one. Running every song on the radio through this algorithm would be good. Just so I can automagically switch channels if the software says it's "hit-material" mind you..
it's the music equivalent of spamfiltering.
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its a good thing you posted that AC. Using an mp3 player? you terrorist you.
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Of course there are. Microsoft has already taken care of this. Cheers to our friends in Redmond!
-- Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Quick--someone dig up a copy of "Disco Duck" and see what it does with that.
That's just what I need... a computer telling me what music I like.
Maybe they should rank songs in the Top 40 by how many times it is downloaded on Kazaa. I mean, the idea is to rank how POPULAR the song is, what better method than to measure how many people are getting using the most popular method for getting new music?
Yea, I know, its illegal, but at least it would be more accurate. Then again the purpose of the Top 40 is to SELL CDs, not to inform you on what is really most popular.
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I assumed computers were already responsible for top 40 music.