Herd It

Last month, I posted about different types of music discovery tools available online. Now Herd It has just invented a new way to find music!

Search by description – Herd It’s music discovery engine uses results from games played by YOU and the whole herd to train machines that can listen to, understand and describe music. For example, when Herd It players say that a song is “romantic”, our listening algorithms can hear features in the music and learn to identify new romantic songs. With your help, these musical machines are learning to understand all types of music – the more you play Herd It, the smarter they get!

Herd It music discovery engine lets you find music by describing the type of songs you want. Now you can find “romantic jazz with saxophone” or “funk with a horn section to play at a party”, without knowing the names of the bands or songs.

To request an invite to be a tester of Herd It music discovery, sign up here.

Does “Paranoid” by Black Sabbath seem like a red song?
Is Oasis’s “Don’t Look Back in Anger” more of a green groove?
“Stupid Blues” by Junior Brown is almost certainly blue…

One of the minigames in Herd It asks the herd what color they think a song is. We weren’t really sure if people would consistently associate words with colors – not everyone has synesthesia or plays Herd It while tripping! So we’ve taken this data and created the super-fabulous Herd It COLOR search!

Check it out and see if you think that the colors of the rainbow match the music.  Maybe you can also find out who stole me lucky charms…