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April 6th, 2008 by Ben

The McCourt/Burkart article discusses online music services. I thought it would be useful to visit a few modern and popular incarnations of the types of services they discuss.

1. One type of service mentioned is “listening machines” that automatically analyze and categorize music based on actual waveform, tempo, etc. A free and popular service that does this (related to the Music Genome Project the article discusses) isPandora.

2. Another type of service is “collaborative filtering” where the musical tastes of people who listen to similar music as you dictate suggestions. A popular and free service for this type of site isLastFM.

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