Search Inside the Music
July 11, 2006
Paul Lamere è un ricercatore della Sun Microsystems, a capo del progetto Search Inside The Music.
The goal of the ‘Search Inside the Music’ project is to explore new methods of categorizing, indexing and organizing large collections of music to allow more effective ways of searching through these collections. This project will extend music search to search ‘inside the music’, that is, to search not just titles, keywords and artists, but to search music by music content and context. We want to help people find and organize their music based on all of of the properties of the music including such properties such as acoustic similarity, mood, lyrics, musical theme, melody, tempo, rhythm, and instrumentation.
We are currently focusing on two areas: using acoustic similarity to help people find music that ’sounds similar’ to music that they already like, and using social data to recommend and organize music based upon the listening habits of people with similar musical tastes.
Qualcosa di simile a Pandora.
Come sempre, si cerca di sfruttare le caratteristiche sociali del network per far emergere autonomamente i gusti degli utenti. E’ impossibile, per una macchina, capire e giudicare una qualunque espressione artistica. Al contrario, il software è capace di amplificare esponenzialmente le nostre capacità di gestione dei dati, indicizzando e catalogando librerie musicali sempre più grandi.
