3 Jul
2003
3 Jul
'03
6:58 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0200, Maarten de Boer wrote:
Sure, but thats just because new models of recommendation haven't been
worked out enough. Things like mp3.com one way of finding good,
unpublished bands, but to me its not that useful as it appears the the
public actually likes the bulk pop fodder they get handed by the labels.
product. I can
find higher quality music being given away by the artist
for free than its possible to find in all the archives of major labels
I'd like to agree, but personally, I have a hard time finding good music
for free. There is also a lot of, how shall i put it, lesser quality
music around, and I don't really know where to look. I find it already
very difficult to find something that I really like among known music or
publicly advertised/broadcasted music. How do you go to a record store
and pick a CD of an artist you don't know yet? By the cover? Now, what I would really like, is a website dedicated
to free music,
that offers a search engine not unlike allmusic, but much more
"intelligent": keeping user profiles, matching user profiles with tastes
so it can make suggestions, an advanced rating system where users can
rate not only the music itself but also similarity to other artists,
etc. (RFC)
There have been a bunch of light-AI backed recommender websites (mostly
produced by university CS departments), I think they tend to fold because
the cost of running them is a bit too high. Maybe someone like MP3.com
could support it, now there getting bigger.
I've had a reasonable ammount of exposure through mp3.com, and even some
cash, even though my music is quite a ... specialised taste ;) But the
recommender algorithm they use is deeply b0rken and tends to cause a
positive feedback, rich get richer, effect.
- Steve