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Now, play the music that suits mood!
Even though you can store a plethora of songs in your ipod, it cannot play the music you feel like hearing
Even though you can store a plethora of songs in your ipod, it cannot play the music you feel like hearing on its own, but researchers at the University of Munich in Germany have created a programme called ‘AudioRadar’, that promises to fit your music selections to your mood.
The researchers said that even though people make their own categories on their iPods, sorting music by suitability to moods or events, but with personal digital music collections now easily including more than 10,000 songs, that's a time-consuming process.
They said that the jarring leaps of MP3 shuffling could now be banished by the ‘Audioradar’ program devised by Otmar Hilliges and his colleagues.
Choosing music by genre or artist doesn't guarantee to give you what you want. Musical genres don't necessarily capture the emotional qualities of a particular song.
"A lot of people don't know what songs their library contains. We try to give people a means to navigate their collection", Nature magazine quoted Hilliges, as saying.
The AudioRadar is a four-dimensional music software, which breaks down musical pieces into four attributes: fast/slow, rhythmic/melodic, calm/turbulent and rough/clean.
The four characteristics are then used to locate all the songs in a play list within a four-dimensional space.
To determine which music is selected from this space, the user specifies the preferred levels of each of the four attributes to match their mood.
The researchers have developed a way of projecting these results onto a two-dimensional display, in which a reference song' appears at the centre and the other songs are placed in concentric circles surrounding it.
The users can decide to move in a specific trajectory from the current song, for example getting music that's similar but faster, or the MP3 player could be set to meander randomly in one part of the mood space.
