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Predixis MusicMagic Mixer

Predixis invited me to play with their latest music tool MusicMagic Mixer. This application analyzes your music collection and generates mixes based on selected artists and/or albums. It also has a moods feature that allows you to select a number of tracks that exemplify a particular mood and use this list of tracks to generate more mixes for your mood.

The machine I tried it on didn't have a full complement of music on it, since I don't keep music on my Windoze machine. This makes it hard to tell exactly how effective this tool is. I suppose I should mount my music collection over the network and let the mixer go to town on it and see what happens.

The one drawback I can see is the speed of analyzing tracks -- some tracks took more than a minute to analyze -- and that is too long if you have a large collection of music to chew through.

Regardless, I am very interested in these types of next generation tools that will free digital music users from the stupid CD player paradigm (having to constantly pick the music you want to listen to). I'd like it to be a lot more automatic, but still tons more personal that just listening to the radio. Check it out!

Posted by Mayhem at September 29, 2003 05:10 PM