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28 Jan 09 - 04:41 PM (#2551363) Subject: 4 approaches to music recommendations From: katlaughing Rather an interesting article in the NYTs: Four Approaches to Music Recommendations: Pandora, Mufin, Lala, and eMusic. Here's the opening paragraph: Thanks to MP3s and the Internet, we now have millions of songs readily available to us with the click of a button, but, paradoxically, this has often made it even harder to discover new music to listen to. Every online music store and every social network that focuses on online music, however, now features some kind of music recommendation system, and some services like Pandora or Slacker Radio are indeed nothing else but highly sophisticated music discovery engines. In this post, we will look at the different approaches behind some of the most popular music recommendation and discovery services. |