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Software Predicts Music Success

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the prestidigitation-and-other-party-tricks dept.

Frankenbuffer writes "The Globe and Mail today reports that MIT researchers have developed a computer program to analyze pop music and predict how people will react to it. The method, developed at MIT's Media Laboratory, analyzes the pitch, rhythm, and other characteristics of music. What makes the technology unusual is that it also takes into account social responses to hit music gathered from weblogs, chat rooms, music reviews, and other online discussions, and correlates this data to the music to guage the popularity of a particular sound. According to the researchers, the software has accurately predicted Billboard hits for the past several months."

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  1. Re:great... by Seumas · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now if only someone could produce an piece of code that analyzed slashdot submissions and weeded out duplicates like this one. You know, news that Slashdot did last year.

  2. Re:More targetted version by dduardo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try pandora.com. Enter a band or song you like and it will find similar music. Also, if you look inside the cache folder you'll find mp3s of all the songs you've heard through the site.

  3. Oh, let me say it this time! by pegr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dupe! ;)

    1. Re:Oh, let me say it this time! by Andy_R · · Score: 4, Informative

      Dupe of a dupe, actually

      --
      A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
  4. Re:More targetted version by wolenczak · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can create a profile in audioscrobbler (last.fm). I've discovered lots of new sounds that turned out to be what i was looking for.

    http://www.last.fm/user/paco_cotera/