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Music recommendations systems such as that used by Amazon (the Amazon system is based on an earlier system called Firefox - before 'Firefox' was a web browser) work surprisingly well provided they already know about a good proportion of your music collection. This makes their recommendations more accurate
and stops them recommending stuff you've already got.
Now, I can't be bothered to enter my whole CD collection into their rather clunky interface but I do already have all my CDs (and quite a lot of vinyl too) on iTunes so all that's needed is for iTunes to submit this data to Amazon, get the recommendations back and give me links to buy the recommended music at the iTunes store and at Amazon.
Goombah
http://www.transpos.../pr_02_goombah.html
This is interesting, but not quite what I meant [hippo, Jan 04 2006]
last.fm
http://last.fm
what [hippo] wants, and will now have. [neilp, Jan 04 2006]
Slimscrobbler
http://slimscrobbler.sourceforge.net/
[hippo, Jan 04 2006]
Not exactly the same thing, but pretty good anyway
www.pandora.com
[longshot9999, Mar 18 2008]
[link]
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i am surprised that apple aren't doing this already. clever. |
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sod itunes, use Audioscrobbler (by last.fm) which does charts/recommendations based on what people are listening to, rather than what they have in their library (plugins for iTunes, WMP, winamp etc.). |
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[neilp] - interesting, and there's some logic in basing recommendations on listening habits rather than what's in my music library. However, I listen to most music through my SliMP3 player whose SlimServer software uses the iTunes library. There isn't a AudioScrobbler plugin for SlimServer so I'm not sure it'd work for me. |
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[neilp] - aha! - since my last anno, someone's written a plugin - see link. |
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[hippo] back of the net ! I was just about to say I thought I'd seen some slim out there. What's your profile name, I guess you're not hippo ? |
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[neilp] - haven't signed up yet - I'll let you know when I'm on though |
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I doubt it would actually work. My experience with ITunes suggests to me that a major problem will be my 80 gig iPod, which can hold far more music than my 24 gig laptop... even assuming I would care to have all my music on my laptop at all times. |
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My experience with Amazon.com also tells me it will be an epic failure, as I've told them at least 12 times I already own certain movies and DVDs, which they continue to recommend to me. |
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