Hi all, DJA here.
There has been a lot of talk in the last week or so in regards to Apples new service, ping. I won't get into it here, but will instead link to an excellent article on the topic over at create digital music.
Within that article, I found this great hack which is a part of "music hack day", described as "A full weekend of music hacking. Software + hardware + art + the web. Come build the future of music." The hack is called "Future of Music", and was made as a response to "music recommenders and music similarity services". As the creator Brian Whitman puts it:
"If we rely on these computer programs to learn about music, well we might as well rely on them to fix the sins of our past and delete the crap we are obviously not meant to listen to anymore. "Future of Music (2010)" is a Mac OS X app that scans your iTunes library and computes the music you are not supposed to listen to anymore based on your preferences. It then helpfully deletes it from iTunes and your hard drive. Skips the recycle bin. Just like other recommender systems, it uses a lot of fancy math (and data from Echo Nest and last.fm) that really doesn't matter in the end. Just click the button and let it take care of your life."
There is something about the picture above (well, two things) that make me laugh. Can you see them?
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