RE: FN-FORUM: Unsual idea...

date posted 9th August 2003 17:25

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Craig Tinson wrote:

> Actually... I'm not converting the waveform so I can compress it or
> manipulate it.. as has been said this has already been done many many
> times (different audio formats) I was wanting to store a version in a
> database so that I could run other samples against it in a fuzzy
> search..

Ah.... "From the music you've just played [a Kylie single], you'd probably
like... Sinnita, Rick Astley, Jason Donovan..." etc.

OK, two approaches:-

a) heavy maths. Start googling around with phrases like "algorithmic music
classification".

b) rely on the fact that most MP3s out there of a particular song are
probably a small set of files. Hash each one (e.g. MD5) and get the users to
classify them - style, instruments, era, genre etc. Then use /those/
classifications to suggest alternatives (This is similar to how things like
firefly and musicmatch work, I think).

> Kel.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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