Comments on: Killer music technology

By: plamere

plamere — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:08:01 +0000

It is science but only on April 1. ;)

By: monk

monk — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:59:38 +0000

“good” vs. “bad” = subjective… i think this is science the same way leggos are construction materials.

By: steved

steved — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:20:56 +0000

Argggh- I hate going over items a week later in my reader and then realizing they were posted on april 1st. The april fools hangover affect always gets me.

By: debcha

debcha — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:34:49 +0000

That was hilariously deadpan. Nicely done.

And Zac, you win the comments.

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Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:01:54 +0000

[...] Killer music technology We’ve been head down here at the Echo Nest putting the finishing touches on what I think is a game changer for music discovery. For years, music recommendation companies have been trying to get collaborative filtering technologies to work. These CF systems work pretty well, but sooner or later, you’ll get a bad recommendation. There are just too many ways for a CF recommender to fail. Here at the ‘nest we’ve decided to take a completely different approach. Instead of recommending music bas [...]

By: plamere

plamere — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:08:42 +0000

We crawl the web for artist and band names. A good way to ensure that your band gets coverage is to make sure that it has an entry at MusicBrainz.org

By: Tinyfolk

Tinyfolk — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:31:11 +0000

What did you use for artist names? Because my band came up and some of my friends’ bands came up, but others’ didn’t.

By: Afront

Afront — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:41:40 +0000

So good it was bad.

Suitably Suckered (until Nitzer Ebb gave me “This one makes me cry every time”)

By: Latrell White

Latrell White — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:54:45 +0000

At least music criticism is more exciting, such as having more options to gauge whether a particualr song is good or bad.

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