söndag 5 Aug 2007, 0:45

Yet another music matching tool out there, people. Enter musiclens, the site that allows you to find artists you may like (or group artists you already know) by adjusting various sliders in different categories and seeing the real-time results on a 3D map and recommendation list.

The factor categories are (and their extrema):

Volume (Ear Busting <–> Silent)
Tempo (Fast <–> Slow)
Voice (Instrumental <–> Vocal)
Size (Orchestra <–> Slow)
Purpose (Listening <–> Dance)
Sex (Male <–> Female)
Age (0, 10, … <–> More)
Mood (Smile <–> Angry)
Color (Spectrum)
Year

I tried it, adjusting the sliders to what I think is representative of the type of music I normally enjoy the most. Below is what I got:

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/6898/musiclensqk9.th.jpg

I listen to 6/8 of the artists listed below the graph: Korn, P.O.D., N*E*R*D, Beck, Lamb and LL Cool J. That's 7.5/10, not bad at all for the site. What's impressive is that the results are fairly genre-spanning. Who'd have thought LL Cool J'd be correctly recommended alongside Korn without having any prior knowledge of the user's scrobbling record? Amazing.

Oh by the way, for those who are familiar with the other artists that I don't listen to (because I haven't heard them yet), could you recommend me something by them? Fans of Sinitta and Manowar, now's your chance to be heard ;)

Try it yourself, see what you get and post back about it!