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Comment author: Viliam 05 June 2015 07:21:34AM 6 points [-]

Someone please make a program that I can feed my favorite music, and then it will generate an infinite stream of similar music.

Comment author: gwern 05 June 2015 03:49:23PM *  3 points [-]
Comment author: Vaniver 05 June 2015 01:15:40PM 1 point [-]

I've looked into this, but didn't get very far with it. It seems eminently doable, at least with basic mood music. The existing programs to classify music and predict satisfaction don't seem all that good, though, at least for sophisticated constructs.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 June 2015 10:01:04AM *  1 point [-]

Someone please make a program that I can feed my favorite music, and then it will generate an infinite stream of similar music.

The possibilities are endless.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 June 2015 02:55:19PM *  -1 points [-]

Isn't that the whole point of Pandora?

Comment author: Viliam 07 June 2015 10:20:57PM *  1 point [-]

Nope, Pandora chooses from existing songs. I would like to hear generated music -- like gwern posted, only generated in real time, an infinite stream. With no copyrights!

I tried Pandora once, years ago, and the music it found felt competely dissimilar to what I wanted. This could be because (if I understand the system correctly) people are tagging the songs, and the tags they give to the songs are probably unrelated to what I like about them.

Comment author: Lumifer 08 June 2015 02:40:56PM 1 point [-]

Ah. Well, I don't think that generating good music is a solved problem to start with. Once we can generate good music on demand, we can start thinking about matching tastes and emotional states.