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Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Pedro Remedios — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:05:38 -0000

Full track streaming would be good yes.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Adam Sieff — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:17:42 -0000

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.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

John Fitzgerald — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:10:41 -0000

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.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Tony O'Connell — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:35:53 -0000

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.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Riky Cohen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:56:24 -0000

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.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Melanie — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:25:37 -0000

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?

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

David — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:31:04 -0000

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.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:14:23 -0000

ouch ... at least it didn't suggest Nickleback

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:13:32 -0000

true, but radio doesn't give you as much choice in what you listen to ... what this site needs badly is full track streaming

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

steve — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:09:45 -0000

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...

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Jonathan Franzone — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:23:39 -0000

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.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

mrdarius — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:06:03 -0000

yeah, funny that this post didn't mention pandora at all...

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Adam Morris — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:53:44 -0000

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.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:33:28 -0000

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.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

dekaru — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:24:07 -0000

this isn't something new. the Music Genome Project ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... ) 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.

Re: Discover New Music through Sound Analysis With Mufin (20 Invites)

cuffshark — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:12:01 -0000

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.