Comments on: My First Impressions of iTunes 8 “Genius” http://joeygibson.com/2008/09/10/my-first-impressions-of-itunes-8-genius/ Java, Clojure, Scala, Groovy, Ruby, Python, Lisp, Objective-C, OSX, politics, religion, Koine Greek, Tae Kwon Do, Spanish and much more! Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: joeygibson http://joeygibson.com/2008/09/10/my-first-impressions-of-itunes-8-genius/comment-page-1/#comment-503 joeygibson Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:17:38 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=780#comment-503 I don't know how Pandora does what they do, or what the "music genome project" really is, but they do a really good job of artist/song matching based on the actual music of a song. It's really neat. I don’t know how Pandora does what they do, or what the “music genome project” really is, but they do a really good job of artist/song matching based on the actual music of a song. It’s really neat.

]]> By: frgough http://joeygibson.com/2008/09/10/my-first-impressions-of-itunes-8-genius/comment-page-1/#comment-502 frgough Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:34:38 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=780#comment-502 Interesting. I was hoping that it would do some sort of analysis on the song waveforms (the geek in me) and select from a database of music with similar patterns. But instead it looks like it's just pulling from the "people who bought this song also bought" list, so I think the best way to look at it is: People who like what you like also like X, and so maybe you will too, rather than: here's all the music similar in form and style to what you selected. Interesting. I was hoping that it would do some sort of analysis on the song waveforms (the geek in me) and select from a database of music with similar patterns. But instead it looks like it’s just pulling from the “people who bought this song also bought” list, so I think the best way to look at it is:

People who like what you like also like X, and so maybe you will too, rather than: here’s all the music similar in form and style to what you selected.

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