OMRAS2 Summary Statement

Imagine you've just been given a gift subscription to a 2 million song online music store. You can choose 10,000 songs to download onto your music player, but there's a problem. You have never heard a vast majority of these songs; how can you construct playlists of new music that you will like? Other users of music navigation technologies might be the radio DJ looking for new music to keep her show on the cutting edge, music researchers investigating variations of riffs that Jimi Hendrix played and how they differ and the record producer trying to find a formula for hits. These interesting problems concerning large collections of digital music are what OMRAS2 will address; there will be software that helps you build playlists with songs that you'll love even though you never heard them before; and there will be tools to help the music researcher and record producer achieve their goals too.

-- MichaelCasey - 19 Jan 2007