Talk:Music Genome Project

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Mentioning vectors and genes is somewhat ambiguous. Assuming they're just using a multivariable regression or neural net to gauge listener preferences, why not refer to the genes as variables and omit the term vector? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gtation (talk • contribs) 17:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From what I gather, it's a much, much simpler n-dimensional vector distance function.--69.65.178.16 (talk) 03:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC) (2ltben)[reply]

my question is... how can they do this in a legal way? is itunes providing the songs?

because they only use streams (like Yahoo! Launchcast, Rhapsody, etc.) I think artists are more forgiving. they also have paid memberships and ads to pay the royalties, I believe. – ugen64 16:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm deleting the third paragraph because it is information about Pandora rather than the Music Genome Project, which can be found under the article for Pandora which is conveniently linked for anyone who is curious.--24.190.122.122 20:07, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What does "lauded" mean?

praised, as in cum laude ("with praise"), magna cum laude ("with great praise") etc Liamdaly620 14:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"lauded" like in applauded, to give praise...

This is great for finding similar music that might interest you, but is there anything like the genome project for finding books that are similar that I might like? That would also be really helpful. —The preceding

Just ask your librarian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bjprice1 (talk • contribs) 22:05, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, this will be much harder. The real "smarts" comes from the human judgment of the attributes of a piece. It takes much, much longer for a person to read a book than to listen to a song. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.211.255.172 (talk) 12:51, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I remember hearing after the block of UK to pandora happened, that they were working on a Pandora.com style site for royalty free music. Is there anywhere that has information proving this to be true? -NeF (talk) 12:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The hyperlink for "William Nelson" goes to a disambiguation page. There is no indication which William Nelson is the relevant one. Googling for "William Nelson" and "Music Genome Project" yields nothing useful. 207.188.235.142 (talk) 17:19, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Given that the system's fairly obviously flawed, with genes like 'gender of lead vocalist' (which isn't going to impact on your enjoyment of the song), I'm surprised that there isn't any 122.105.140.146 (talk) 10:26, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That is your opinion, while I personally think it works well. In any case, a criticism section would need to be based on notable criticism of the project in reliable sources (e.g. publications), not the opinion or original research of Wikipedia editor(s).

As for "gender of lead vocalist", it's not very representative of the genes the project tracks... perhaps it was included because it's easy to understand for non-musicians. That said, remember that there are hundreds of genes tracked, and a gene might be irrelevant to some stations and relevant to others. For example, it might make sense for a Riot grrrl station to favor female vocalists, while also playing some songs by male vocalists. No trait would absolutely include/exclude a song, it's a question of probabilities. Proxyma (talk) 20:03, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. I have a Spotify playlist/channel that's for female artists. Sometimes I just feel like listening to women sing. 128.95.48.156 (talk) 20:36, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.115.207 (talk) 19:20, 30 May 2013‎

I replaced that one, and tagged another. –Quiddity (talk) 21:11, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A fairly complete if not complete list of attributes can be found here: http://dictionary.sensagent.com/list%20of%20music%20genome%20project%20attributes%20by%20type/en-en/ Pulu (talk) 00:46, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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