{"id":247,"date":"2009-03-17T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-03-17T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:54:15","slug":"music-20-music-discovery-chaos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Music 2.0 = Music Discovery Chaos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 17th at 05:00 PM<br \/>Presenters:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernova.com\">Elliott Hurst<\/a> &#8211; Supernova.com<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernova.com\">Sandy Hurst<\/a> &#8211; Supernova.com<\/p>\n<p>Supernova.com started as an indie band tracking company. At some point that transitioned to an online band\/concert tracking service. How does supernova.com expose the music and bands on their site to the public so people can find what they&#8217;re looking for? In the past radio or V was the only want to find new music. It used to come from record stores or friends. Very little interaction or feedback, based on very few metrics (sales, call-ins). The internet changed everything. There are now many many ways to discover new music (Pandora, Last.fm, etc.). Power has been taken away from the small group of &quot;experts.&quot; Now that there are more ways to find music, we&#8217;re encountering information overload. Selections are determined by computers and algorithms. What is music 2.0?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does everyone use to discover music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Napster &#8211; Find someone with a similar playlist and look aroud to find other songs in that user&#8217;s playlist.<\/li>\n<li>Used to listen to MTV, now read blogs recommended by friends. Go to shows a lot.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spotify.com\/en\/\">Spotify<\/a> (UK) &#8211; desktop client you can listen streaming, searching for artists. You can share tracks or lists with your friends.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/\">Pitchfork blog<\/a> &#8211; expert based music opinion, friend recommendations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mufin.com\/\">Muffin<\/a> &#8211; recommendations, problems with new artists since there is no crowd for them. Popular artists get recommended a lot since they are in many many playlists. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/\">Last.fm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purevolume.com\/\">Purevolume<\/a> &#8211; PV plugs a personality into the recommendation engine.<\/li>\n<li>New iPhone SDK now allows access to play count to third parties to plug into.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.we7.com\/\">We7.com<\/a> &#8211; however you come in via a particular music\/song entry point, you should see similar music choices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a small argument with the people in the room between the human recommendations vs. computer (sounds like) recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>A typical itunes library has a huge scattering or artists, doesn&#8217;t make it easy to make recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Several people in the room were complaining that it is too hard to find new\/good music because there is too much choice out there(?). &quot;Who has time for that?&quot; The flip side is the old way of finding music which to me sounds even more difficult (DJ&#8217;s and friend recommendations). I would much rather have too much choice (is that possible?) than having very little choice, or not being able find someone to trust from a small pool of choices. A sentiment was that a computer simply can&#8217;t stand up to a computer when picking music &#8211; it&#8217;s an art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 17th at 05:00 PMPresenters:Elliott Hurst &#8211; Supernova.comSandy Hurst &#8211; Supernova.com Supernova.com started as an indie band tracking company. At some point that transitioned to an online band\/concert tracking service. How does supernova.com expose the music and bands on their site to the public so people can find what they&#8217;re looking for? 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