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Software Predicts Music Success
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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Yeah, 'cause there were no manufactured pop bands in the 60's or 70's. There was no such thing as commercial music in any way.
Get this... a lot of music is made for the express purpose of MAKING MONEY. If you don't like what you listen to on the radio, then shut the fuck up, turn it the fuck off, go the fuck outside, and go see some REAL bands where you live.
Or just shut the fuck up. The rest is optional as far as I'm concerned.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.