Comments on: Music discovery in mixed up, muddled up, shook up world http://herdit.org/blog/?p=21 a game about music Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:54:35 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Herd It http://herdit.org/blog/?p=21#comment-10 Herd It Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:29:54 +0000 http://herdit.org/blog/?p=21#comment-10 [...] month, I posted about different types of music discovery tools available online. Now Herd It has just invented a new way to find [...] [...] month, I posted about different types of music discovery tools available online. Now Herd It has just invented a new way to find [...]

]]> By: Daniel Kane http://herdit.org/blog/?p=21#comment-6 Daniel Kane Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:24:34 +0000 http://herdit.org/blog/?p=21#comment-6 I discover music by listening to music online at KCRW.com When I hear a song I like, I jot the name of the track and artist on a piece of scrap paper. I discover music by listening to music online at KCRW.com When I hear a song I like, I jot the name of the track and artist on a piece of scrap paper.

]]> By: bmcfee http://herdit.org/blog/?p=21#comment-5 bmcfee Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:56:41 +0000 http://herdit.org/blog/?p=21#comment-5 The one thing I think is missing from this list is the "passive/indecisive" mode. I often get friends asking something along the lines of "give me something new!", but without any other input. I'm in this boat pretty often myself. Content-based search is pretty much doomed here, but social networks can come to the rescue. This is one thing I like about last.fm's separation of "friends" (social network) and "neighborhoods" (collaborative filtering). Blogs work pretty well for this too, but they're trickier to manage without a unified interface. RSS aggregators can only go so far. Perhaps twitter can be the way of the future for social music recommendation? The one thing I think is missing from this list is the “passive/indecisive” mode. I often get friends asking something along the lines of “give me something new!”, but without any other input. I’m in this boat pretty often myself.

Content-based search is pretty much doomed here, but social networks can come to the rescue. This is one thing I like about last.fm’s separation of “friends” (social network) and “neighborhoods” (collaborative filtering).

Blogs work pretty well for this too, but they’re trickier to manage without a unified interface. RSS aggregators can only go so far. Perhaps twitter can be the way of the future for social music recommendation?

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