The Low Volta Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 I love to learn from my friends when it comes to getting to know new music... but for the moment I'm (temporarily) living at the other side of the country from most of my friends so I had to look elsewhere for inspiration and tips...playing around on the net, I stumbled upon this funny gadget: music map (the tourist map of music)you enter the name of a band you like and press search and it shows a number of other bands that ppl who listen to your selection also like... they are even spread out in the two dimensional space of your screen according to the number of ppl who connected those bandshere's a sample with 'The Mars Volta' (one of my fav bands) as a query:[attachmentid=704]every band name can be clicked again so you get a new map centered on that one... so you can travel through ppl's tastesit's a shame that there's no description/sample of any of the bands or links to dedicated sites... but we all can use a search engine and tabbed browsing can't we? so that's actually a minor inconvenienceThe mapping is based on the info from the GNOD database:Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of gnod all is about music. Gnod is kind of a search engine for music you don't know about. It will ask you what music you like and then think about what you might like too. When I set gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains thousands of bands and quite some knowledge about who likes what. And gnod learns more every dayand if you travel to this site you can add your tastes and likings to the database...I had some fun with this and got interested in a couple of bands... so I just thought I'd share it with the rest of you... but if anyone out there has better/funnier/more complete options/ideas/gadgets for getting inspired, please share as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streaml1ne Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Ah nice find. This will definitely help find new music. Time to populate it with small bands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyIvan Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Very interesting. I am going to have to wait to search it at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 An interesting idea, but it looks pretty hungry yet. Let's feed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted August 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 An interesting idea, but it looks pretty hungry yet. Let's feed it.I already went through about eight rounds feeding new groups... well let Gnod know some good music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonyuhanov Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Thats a pretty cool site! makes searching for new music to listen to a brease!!Leon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 hey thats pretty cool, nice find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug80 Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Great!The idea is a bit like audioscrobbler. But I think this is more fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted August 18, 2005 Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 nice find Volta.. will spend some time on it later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.