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Monday, May 21, 2007

Let math help pick your music




MUSIC INTELLIGENCE: 2012

MAY 7, 2007

Mike McCready’s company, Platinum Blue, uses computers to analyze the mathematical patterns in songs. McCready and Malcolm Gladwell discuss how this technology can help the music business identify potential hits, and what Gladwell should listen to next. From “2012: Stories from the Near Future,” the 2007 New Yorker Conference.



Click here to hear it. About
10-15 minutes, but worth it.

1 comment:

Gaston said...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/05/social-music-overview/

Is a review of the 2 most popular recommendation systems.

In brief, Pandora is a human version of what Platinum Blue is doing, and Last.fm is purely social.

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