Shame on Newsweek for presenting this issue as "one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism" rather than the Chinese government wanting to choose the next Dali Lama. They do come out and say that later in the article but presenting this as just some kind of wacky law is misleading. I guess the real shame is that most people don't get past the first few sentences of the article to understand what's really being discussed.
I've been using predixis software for a few months now to put together music mixes(http://www.predixis.biz/). The software analyzes music files you have on your PC and creates a kind of musical finger print. Then you give it a song to start with and it puts together a play list of similar sounding songs. My wife used to work at a radio station back in the day when the disk jockey actually selected the songs that were played. She's really good at putting together a play list and she was very impressed with the mixes the software puts out. If you don't put any restraints on the genre that the software selects from the play list can be a bit odd (throwing Christmas music in with Rock or opera) but it all sounds good together One of the things I like about it is that it will pull songs out of my collection that I haven't listen to in years. It's like discovering good songs all over again.
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Shame on Newsweek for presenting this issue as "one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism" rather than the Chinese government wanting to choose the next Dali Lama. They do come out and say that later in the article but presenting this as just some kind of wacky law is misleading. I guess the real shame is that most people don't get past the first few sentences of the article to understand what's really being discussed.
I've been using predixis software for a few months now to put together music mixes(http://www.predixis.biz/).
The software analyzes music files you have on your PC and creates a kind of musical finger print. Then you give it a song to start with and it puts together a play list of similar sounding songs.
My wife used to work at a radio station back in the day when the disk jockey actually selected the songs that were played. She's really good at putting together a play list and she was very impressed with the mixes the software puts out. If you don't put any restraints on the genre that the software selects from the play list can be a bit odd (throwing Christmas music in with Rock or opera) but it all sounds good together
One of the things I like about it is that it will pull songs out of my collection that I haven't listen to in years. It's like discovering good songs all over again.