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hey people, what i wanna do is to automagically create playlists of similar songs that i have on my library. I know about iTunes Genius feature, but it chooses songs not by their characteristics, it chooses similar songs based on people's choices on the iTunes store. What i want is similar to pandora, using only songs in my library...
thanks people!

Sort by Genre, not sure what you're using, if it's iTunes, go to View > Preferences, and add the "genre" option, then just press the new sort option, and it'll sort them into the subsequent genre, followed by artist, then album .

no, what i want is similar songs as in software that analyzes a song's composition and creates a playlist with songs of a similar composition, like Pandora.com (i believe last.fm has something similar too)

i'd be surprised if software like this exists, i'd guess that sites like last.fm do it in person

last.fm can do it that way, but Pandora's is software based (I think Spotify's is too)

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Originally posted by Voldemort
but Pandora's is software based

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never used pandora, and no non US users so can't look

how does it work? upload a song, then tells you songs you mite like ?

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Originally posted by Voldemort
but Pandora's is software based

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never used pandora, and no non US users so can't look

how does it work? upload a song, then tells you songs you mite like ?

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no, you put the name of a song, and it selects and streams similar songs from their database.. been ages since i used it, as they blocked mexico too

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by toddy

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Originally posted by Voldemort
but Pandora's is software based

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never used pandora, and no non US users so can't look

how does it work? upload a song, then tells you songs you mite like ?

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no, you put the name of a song, and it selects and streams similar songs from their database.. been ages since i used it, as they blocked mexico too

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again, isn't it more likely to be done of the back of human comparison?

the software would have to be very advanced, take massive's of ram, and take forever to run.
for it to work properly it would have break down every song on your computer into beat count, rhythm, instruments used, vocals or none/dub, type of vocals, etc then compare that to every other song on your machine. once its then found ones that are likely to be a match, it muct then actually compare the song to each other. e.g. you could have 2 songs with the same beat count, rhythm, same pitch of vocals, etc but one could be about killing yourself and the other about how good life is. you wouldn't want them playing in the same group, would you

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Originally posted by toddy

the software would have to be very advanced, take massive's of ram, and take forever to run.
for it to work properly it would have break down every song on your computer into beat count, rhythm, instruments used, vocals or none/dub, type of vocals, etc then compare that to every other song on your machine.

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Wow, you're right. It's not like computers were meant for that kind of arduous task or anything.

I personally haven't used anything outside of what's been mentioned (Pandora, last.fm, spotify and itunes) so I can't vouch for any of these, but what you're looking for is called a "music recommender."

http://lists.econsultant.com/top-best-music-recommender-websites.html