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New Computer Program Determines "Hitability"

Posted by chrisd on from the clear-channel-rejoices dept.

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.'"

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  1. New computer program determines first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks like this one will be first!

  2. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh yeah!

    1. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      FAILURE of the first order to first post

  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    two days, two first posts.

  4. Bam! by elnerdoricardo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    New Program Determines FP-ability! Shazam!

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    IN SOVIET RUSSIA, sig changes you!
  5. frost pist! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lalala

  6. Gimme Gimme by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Disco Algorithm, whoo - ha

  7. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!

  8. Grandma Pearl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    My grandmother, Anna Pearl (Fine) Hartman, born August 26th, 1882, in Davilla, Texas, was not special except in the ways all grandmothers are special. Friends and family called her Annie. Her children called her Mama and so did I.

    Mama was sweet, gentle, smelled alternately of home-made light bread and/or Mentholatum which she applied regularly to herself and me for a variety of reasons --anything short of brain surgery.

    She taught me to fish, dig for and thread a worm on a hook, catch a grasshopper for bait in a pinch, and how to throw the line from a cane pole. She could kill a water moccasin with a fence post and did on more than one occasion. Other creatures threatening harm also got the fence post. She gave added dimension to the term, fencing,

    She was a devoted Fundamental Baptist who practiced foot washing; whose favorite hymn was "Farther along we'll know all about it; farther along we'll understand why." She had her own version of scripture inspite of the fact that she rested secure in the inviolable, unchangeable Word -- 'It says what it says, but this is what it means. "

    She could comfort my perpetual skinned knees and stumped toes using some kind of ointment and a torn sheet bandage split in two on one end and tied about the wound.

    Mama was endearing and beloved and, as it dawned on me later in life, an enigma. Hearing about her as a friend, sister and mother acquainted me with someone else, somebody I didn't know. Now that I am a grandmother, I've discovered what Mama may have sensed or known. Grandmothers can reinvent themselves in behalf of both themselves and grandchildren, becoming suitable to time and place.

  9. A first post that's not a 'first post' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sign of the apocalypse

  10. George Lucas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Some people are creative geniuses. Some people have only a limited amount of creativity to give, and then they've shot their wad. George Lucas falls into the latter category. The original Star Wars was an OK movie. But even that film, when judged in perspective, was a minor opus. Margaret Mitchell, who wrote Gone With the Wind, is another example of a one-time wonder.

    The world would have been a better place if Lucas had stopped with Start Wars. In truth, the world would have been better off without it altogether. Star Wars has done little to contribute to our society other than to raise the level of commercial exploitation. It certainly hasn't raised the level of art by any perceptible degree.

    1. Re:George Lucas by KemoSabe304 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The original Star Wars: Episode IV does not fall under what you refer to as "commercial exploitation." V and VI, well, maybe (no argument about I, II, and III). Episode IV was truly a work of art though. It was one of the highest grossing films of the late 70s because of substance, not hype. People went to see it because it was a good movie with groundbreaking special effects, not because the media said "go see this movie" as is usually the case, sadly enough. I do not understand how the world would be a better place without Star Wars; however, it WOULD be a better place without Jar Jar Binks... *dismounts soapbox*

  11. Kylie Minogue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From the people of Australia: SORRY!

  12. Re:This is a great theory, if... by whereiswaldo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So the Barenaked Ladies were right... It's All Been Done. Woo-hoo-hoo!

    One minute... (sticks finger down throat)...

    Bawaaaarrrff..

  13. Does it also know... by Drakker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does it also know what discs should have DRM? Can it predict how long it will take to crack it?

  14. Meet the new crap... by MrLint · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    same as the old crap.

  15. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The computer generates the song for you.
    You generate songs for computer!