Musical tastes are not easy to classify with just a few tags. What gets one person’s foot tapping and their heart thumping is not going to win over their cousin necessarily. Moods also swing or swoon to a fickle beat, and the music you may want to match or detach your mood can’t be easily conjured from a rudimentary playlist or a limited catalog. It’s on these premises that a researcher at Sun Microsystems Laboratories has developed the Search Inside the Music project, which digs deeply into the music itself to classify the actual characteristics of music.
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Beyond the Shuffle Button: Sorting Music by Sound
Posted by: Dana Gardner February 13, 2007 05:00 AMMusical tastes are not easy to classify with just a few tags. What gets one person’s foot tapping and their heart thumping is not going to win over their cousin necessarily. Moods also swing or swoon to a fickle beat, and the music you may want to match or detach your mood can’t be easily conjured from a rudimentary playlist or a limited catalog. It’s on these premises that a researcher at Sun Microsystems Laboratories has developed the Search Inside the Music project, which digs deeply into the music itself to classify the actual characteristics of music.