Downloading Flying Music

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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Suppose all songs were available on a peer-to-peer network. Some sort
of ranking system is also available for each song, based on downloads,
listener feedback, etc. Voila! You don't want to listen to a hundred
random songs to find one you like? Start downloading songs with high
rankings. You run a local program on your computer and give it
feedback about each downloaded song. The software would take into
account the original rating, the name of the rater, and your
subsequent rating, and begin to build a database of raters you tend to
agree with. Over time--and it wouldn't take long--the program could
start making recommendations to you automatically. Furthermore your
feedback would be sent back to the P2P network to assist others.

http://launch.yahoo.com/

The radio station does this. You customise it and tune it.You rate songs
and it builds up a profile. I haven't tried it myself, but a friend of mine
listens to it quite regularly.

Paul

"Jay Honeck" writes:

You only *think* you're "self-selecting" what you see at the movies. That
decision was actually made for you well in advance by the Miramaxes of the
world...

I've mostly given up on Hollywood movies. Not that I see that many
movies anyway, but mostly they're furrin' art flics. Less special
effects and much better plots and character development.

And, really, would you want it any other way? Would you really *want* 500
movies to choose from, at 500 theaters? Hell, what makes it to the theater
now is often so bad, it's hard to imagine that someone "OK'd" making
it.

Well, that's pretty much what Blockbuster is: hundreds or thousands of
movies to choose from. So, yeah, I sure would have it another way.

Personally, I'm glad there are "studios" and "record companies" weeding out
the field.

I'm not. The music I like--acoustic guitar stuff--is rarely played on
the radio. You don't find much of it in CD stores either.
Peer-to-peer networks make it available.

Newps wrote:

The program director at each individual radio station, that's his job.

Not much anymore. With the big chains of stations, the play list is dictated by
the main corporate management.

George Patterson
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Newps wrote:

The program director at each individual radio station, that's his job.

Not much anymore. With the big chains of stations, the play list is
dictated by
the main corporate management.

So then, that's THEIR job.