I think that this sounds like a great IDEA. However, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Magnetic Fields = Bobby Darren? Hmm... not quite. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of a great future product.
dekaru
· 1 year ago
this isn't something new. the Music Genome Project ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project ) has had it going for years and made a quite successful player with Pandora until license issues came along.
Good to hear of new efforst, though.
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
true, but Pandora builds a radio station based on this data ... not recommend individual tracks. Well, it sort of does, but the presentation is different.
Adam Morris
· 1 year ago
dekaru, I agree. I also think that the human version is always going to be better at identifying similar music than an algorithm. It's hard to capture the mood or essence of a song by it's beats, measures, and pitches, especially with modern music that doesn't really follow the rules.
mrdarius
· 1 year ago
yeah, funny that this post didn't mention pandora at all...
Jonathan Franzone
· 1 year ago
Not impressed. Basically it looks like an interface for Mufin to make music sales off of me. Pandora and Last.fm are much better implementations of this type of venture and they actually let me listen to them as a radio instead of small sample clips.
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
true, but radio doesn't give you as much choice in what you listen to ... what this site needs badly is full track streaming
Pedro Remedios
· 1 year ago
Full track streaming would be good yes.
steve
· 1 year ago
I signed up. I searched for "Vicarious" (from Tool) and it recommended "One" from Creed. That gives me a reaaaaallly bad first impression, but I'll play around with it more at some point...
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
ouch ... at least it didn't suggest Nickleback
David
· 1 year ago
Yup, I was fooled. Should have read a bit closer. I thought it was another streaming music station, but it`s just a glorified sales pitch to sell music, not to listen.
Melanie
· 1 year ago
Wow, no full track streaming? Goodbye, Mufin. I can get recommendations of what else I should be PURCHASING to listen to from...oh, i don't know...Amazon?
Riky Cohen
· 1 year ago
Im sorry, who do you have to kiss, to actually get the code? this is the email ive just got from them: Hi,
really cool that you're interested in our private beta. We're working some things and will sent you your personal invite code for our music discovery engine soon. In the meantime, you can keep updated on the things happening at mufin on our blog: at http://blog.mufin.com
Your mufin team
this is so weird.
tony
· 1 year ago
Invite code works. A pity the software doesn't work too well yet. Just because a song has a similar name doesn't mean it sounds the same.
John Fitzgerald
· 1 year ago
Put in Grateful Dead. Got a TON of Dead songs. Also got a band called An*l C&*t. Wasn't able to get it to play though... It really looks more like a music store than anything.
Adam Sieff
· 1 year ago
I have no problem with discovering new music - quite the opposite, in fact! But what's really needed are more filters by quality, not by sound or genre. And that's generally where humans come in.
All Comments
Good to hear of new efforst, though.
this is the email ive just got from them:
Hi,
really cool that you're interested in our private beta. We're working some things and will sent you your personal
invite code for our music discovery engine soon. In the meantime, you can keep updated on the things happening at mufin
on our blog: at http://blog.mufin.com
Your mufin team
this is so weird.