The authors put together a program that sorts music into genres. It computes similarity between songs using jAudio, then it tries to sort "smart" by using Simple K-Means to place songs in a genre cluster. A user is allowed to type in a song name and it shows songs similar to that song in a cluster. They found that generally people liked the program and useful.
This paper is interesting because it expands on what pandora is doing. Maybe their algorithms will be good. The problem is that intelligently sorting music is nigh impossible because people's tastes are so peculiar so this project is doomed to be less than perfect. Future work will probably include machine learning but I feel they need to look at other ways of sorting the music than in clusters like they have chosen.
This would be cool. I love Pandora but I would love it to be adapted to my own music collection. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a specific sound.
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