Wednesday, December 28, 2011

New useful software for music fans

I decided that it is high time to spread the news about two products that I find very cool. 

1) If you are trying to learn a musical instrument and do not have time/money for lessons by a professional teacher, then ...
why not just use software:
A workgroup lead by a colleague of mine in Fraunhofer Institute in Ilmenau, Germany has created this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVeGLOOTBC4&feature=related
They recently launched a demo. Check it out. Could be useful for you:
http://www2.idmt.fraunhofer.de/de/projekte_themen/s2s/Songs2See_web.htm
 
2) Since the spread of of the idea of services offering online radios with social elements, there has been a plethora of similar ideas:
Part of them are for free  only in USA or a couple of western european countries. These include songza, last.fm, spotify.
Others are still free - my favourite here is jango.com.However they have pretty small range of musical bands and are therefore not yet rich on content.

What is taking, however, an innovative approach is organizing music based on mood. Seems awkward, but is pretty logical - the gloominess of the day or the positive feelings after meeting your old friend influences  a lot the current musical wishlist.
Well they did it! We now have a mood-based online radio:

http://musicovery.com/
Try it out!

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