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Music to match your mood

New software can sort similar tunes together.

You're listening to your MP3 player in shuffle mode and have just been lulled into a mellow mood by Miles Davis, when suddenly the mood is shattered by a blast from the Pixies. If, as Apple claims of the iPod, "random is the new order", it has its drawbacks.

Read the story here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on July 21, 2006 11:10 AM |

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That's interesting!

I am doing almost the same thing for my master's degree, but instead of music, my thesys is about airplanes!
Cool!

Posted by: Andre Izecson | July 21, 2006 02:06 PM

Re: the article by Phillip Ball on music to match your mood. The author may be interested in this web site which does a similar thing but a bit better. Probably because it is a comercial venture.

www.pandora.com

Best wishes

Nick

Posted by: Nick Walsh | July 24, 2006 03:07 PM

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