Ringo: A Music Recommendation System
Upendra Shardanand
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 ri...@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
Dave Dalle
In a previous article, sh...@media.mit.edu (Upendra Shardanand) says:
> 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.
This sounds fuckin' moronic, but I'll try it anyways.
Dave
P.S. Yeah, and I'm sure it's heard of Lustmord
--
True connoisseurs of poetry have been at all times and in all places
exactly so rare as true poets themselves. -Lessing
All the above opinions are Papal Bull and therefore infallible.
Dave Dalle
In a previous article, sh...@media.mit.edu (Upendra Shardanand) says:
> 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
Well, I used it and it sent me a list of artists to rate, they were all
top forty artists, within an extremely limited range of music, and this
brilliant systme supposed to tell me how mainstream my tastes are, oooh, I
hope I'm alternative, god knows the music I buy, I buy only to be alternative.
It's like that new cd vending machine they're supposed to come out with,
it has 20 or so cds, and you can listen to a preview of each cd before
buying! WoW! Gosh, I wonder what Pearl Jam or Blind Melon or Janet
Jackson sounds like, good thing it has this preview option!
Dave