ldopa.net

There’s a extraordinarily comprehensive, excellent article on Pitchfork that discusses some of the new competing digital music personalization and recommendation services — like Pandora, which I like a lot and have discussed before, and Last.fm*, and also new one which I hadn’t heard of before: MusicIP.

MusicIP has the benfit of working locally, analyzing your actual music files and comparing their signature and sound to other music you might find similar, music located both in your local collection and out on the internet. On a good sized collection of digital music, it takes a satisfying amount of time to chug through it all, but once it was done, I clicked on a Django Reinhardt song and it made some fairly astute recommendations, as well as building me a playlist that contained some similar tracks of gypsy jazz that I had kicking around my hard drive. I’m not completely sold on the interface, but hey! it’s free and worth a try.

~jeff

*(which I’ll be honest, looks cool in theory, but I can’t get working right)