My Million-dollar idea
Feb. 13th, 2008 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantua"Serendipity Shuffle"
Your MP3 player has a shuffle mode. But serendipity shuffle goes one step further. It analyzes the song that you're currently playing and then makes a shortlist of songs related to the song you're listening to now -- mostly by looking for matches in the lyrics, although other linking criteria might be used. Then it randomly selects from the shortlist.
Your music is still "random", but you'll notice a weird, slowly-evolving theme running through all the songs.
later
Tom
Your MP3 player has a shuffle mode. But serendipity shuffle goes one step further. It analyzes the song that you're currently playing and then makes a shortlist of songs related to the song you're listening to now -- mostly by looking for matches in the lyrics, although other linking criteria might be used. Then it randomly selects from the shortlist.
Your music is still "random", but you'll notice a weird, slowly-evolving theme running through all the songs.
later
Tom
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Date: 2008-02-13 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-14 12:26 am (UTC)Well, it could be alleviated if you put tags on your songs (or if there was a central database that tagged songs). You're mostly looking for frequency matches. Or you might have a "same but different" flag that looks for songs with words in common, but also words in opposite in common. So a sad love song is followed by a happy love song.
It's not going to be DJ-perfect where one song immediately riffs into the next, but it would seriously up the odds.
later
Tom
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Date: 2008-02-14 01:46 pm (UTC)