The same people who don't want you to share your music with anyone are the ones supporting research in getting computers to pick your music for you, or manipulate music generation algorithms to alter song 'recipes' to produce that which they want you to find more acceptable.
That maybe the goal of some researchers, but many of us that work on audio music recommendation were and are excited about the prospect of finding long tail music or creative commons music. There's nothing evil about recommending a similar track to what you're listening to or like - particularly if it comes from a small artist trying to make his or her independent way in the world. In fact how does that benefit groups of record labels climbing over themselves to sue you for downloading their music illegally? Fair enough you wouldn't be nicking their music, but you wouldn't be buying it either! Just think of all those advertising dollars and sponsorship deals going to waste.
I like listening to one genre, and then switch to another genre, and the programs are unable to provide that.
Not so, Arthur Flexer and co. had a great paper at the conference in question on generating playlists with a specified start and end songs. The system attempts to make smooth transitions between songs that take you through N tracks from the track you started with (in one genre) to your end song (potentially in another genre), passing through whatever is in between. I believe its a publicly available on an http://fm4.orf.at/soundpark">Austrian radio site.
Paul Lamere at Sun Labs (on the 'Search inside the music project') did something similar with what he called musical journeys. Leave work in a sweat listening to Heavy Metal and arrive home to see your family with a some mellow Jazz
Theres talk of evaluating playlist generators at next year's MIREX evaluation. However, I have as yet no idea how we'll evaluate them for performance or compare different ways of 'seeding' a playlist (one track, many tracks, some tags, specified start and end tracks etc.).
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The same people who don't want you to share your music with anyone are the ones supporting research in getting computers to pick your music for you, or manipulate music generation algorithms to alter song 'recipes' to produce that which they want you to find more acceptable.
That maybe the goal of some researchers, but many of us that work on audio music recommendation were and are excited about the prospect of finding long tail music or creative commons music. There's nothing evil about recommending a similar track to what you're listening to or like - particularly if it comes from a small artist trying to make his or her independent way in the world. In fact how does that benefit groups of record labels climbing over themselves to sue you for downloading their music illegally? Fair enough you wouldn't be nicking their music, but you wouldn't be buying it either! Just think of all those advertising dollars and sponsorship deals going to waste.
I like listening to one genre, and then switch to another genre, and the programs are unable to provide that.
Not so, Arthur Flexer and co. had a great paper at the conference in question on generating playlists with a specified start and end songs. The system attempts to make smooth transitions between songs that take you through N tracks from the track you started with (in one genre) to your end song (potentially in another genre), passing through whatever is in between. I believe its a publicly available on an http://fm4.orf.at/soundpark">Austrian radio site. Paul Lamere at Sun Labs (on the 'Search inside the music project') did something similar with what he called musical journeys. Leave work in a sweat listening to Heavy Metal and arrive home to see your family with a some mellow Jazz Theres talk of evaluating playlist generators at next year's MIREX evaluation. However, I have as yet no idea how we'll evaluate them for performance or compare different ways of 'seeding' a playlist (one track, many tracks, some tags, specified start and end tracks etc.).