News tagged with musical genre

Get rhythm -- why the key to finding music you like is rhythm, not genre

So close and yet so wrong - you might love heavy metal like Metallica but your music platform suggests you should also like the Sixties sound of The Doors, simply because both bands are classified as rock.

Physics / General Physics

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Multimedia search without detours

Finding a particular song or video is often no easy matter. Manually assigned metadata may be incorrect, and the unpacking of compressed data can slow up the search. DIVAS, a multimedia search engine, uses digital fingerprints ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Beatles, Stones, Super Mario: big autumn for games

(AP) -- With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall.

Technology / Software

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Strictly ballroom analysis: Computers get to know their rumba from their cha-cha-cha

Computer scientists in Taiwan have devised a neural network program that can successfully classify a computerized music file based on its beat and tempo. The system could be a boon for music archivists with large numbers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Review: Plug-in software that fine tunes iTunes

(AP) -- I generally like the way Apple Inc.'s iTunes orchestrates my music collection, but sometimes it hits a wrong chord on the older and more eclectic CDs transferred to my computer.

Technology / Software

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0