No, nothing to do with the Beatles dammit!
I found this in rec.music.info -- it sounds sort of fun and you can help
someone out with their thesis... Yet another way for the internet to
waste your time at work :)
I hope the wide and varied tastes of the idm list don't completely mess up
the statistical analysis used in this guy's software... Maybe if enough
people from around here join in and add some more techno/idm related
stuff to their artist list, the automated recommedation service will suggest
something other than Paul Simon to me :)
Rob
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From: shard@media.mit.edu (Upendra Shardanand)
Subject: INFO: A Music Recommendation Service
Originator: dallin@CS.ColoState.EDU
Date: Sat Jul 02 17:52:59 EDT 1994
Organization: MIT Media Lab (Music & Cognition)
Followup-To: rec.music.misc
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Introducing.. RINGO, a personal music recommendation service, being
created at the MIT Media Lab. You tell Ringo what kinds of music
groups you like. Then, you can query Ringo and ask for recommendations
for artists you should check out, or should avoid. Or you can find out
how mainstream your tastes are. Or retrieve other information, like
reviews and top 20 charts.
HOW RINGO WORKS: How does it work? Well, how do you do it
ordinarily? You listen to songs that some D.J. plays, or you hear
about stuff from your friends who have tastes similar to your own.
That's how Ringo does it. People all over the internet tell Ringo
about their listening tastes. It then finds people who are similar in
their tastes to you. If they really like some artists that you haven't
heard yet, Ringo will recommend them to you.
HOW TO USE RINGO: Send an e-mail to ringo@media.mit.edu, with only
the word 'join' in the body. It will then send you a list of 125
artists. You rate the artists that you are familiar with. Send it
back. You will then receive a 'help' file describing how to use all
the features of Ringo.
The more users that use Ringo, the better Ringo's predictions. As time
goes on and more people use it, you will find that the predictions become more
accurate. So tell a friend.
Thanks,
Upendra