Wednesday, December 22
Gnoosic - serendipity for music
My latest favourite site - Gnoosic - helps you discover new music that you may not have heard of.
You give it the name of three of your favourite bands, and it comes up with a list of ten other bands you might like. You then rate these, and it improves the quality of the database for others.
It is a self-adapting artificial intelligence program which, based on your input - and the input from thousands of other people - is constantly extending and improving the quality of suggestions.
You do need to exercise some caution - if you put in three widely diverse types of music, then the results are less than helpful. For example I put in Steely Dan, Miles Davis and Coldplay - and the first suggestion was Travis !
Choose three bands of a similar genre/ decade, and it will probably be more helpful.
You give it the name of three of your favourite bands, and it comes up with a list of ten other bands you might like. You then rate these, and it improves the quality of the database for others.
It is a self-adapting artificial intelligence program which, based on your input - and the input from thousands of other people - is constantly extending and improving the quality of suggestions.
You do need to exercise some caution - if you put in three widely diverse types of music, then the results are less than helpful. For example I put in Steely Dan, Miles Davis and Coldplay - and the first suggestion was Travis !
Choose three bands of a similar genre/ decade, and it will probably be more helpful.