brownerthanu writes "Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are developing a system to include an ignored sector of music, dubbed the 'long tail', in music recommendations. It's well known that radio suffers from a popularity bias, where the... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Fri, Nov 06 2009
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California Lawmaker Proposes Music Download Tax » slashdot modemac writes "Sacramento, California Assemblyman Charles Calderon wants to expand a 75-year-old sales tax on 'tangible personal property' to include music downloads from iTunes and other music-download sites. The tax would specifically apply to music... |
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New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die' » slashdot no0b writes "Guy Hands is the new head of EMI, Britain's largest music publisher. Hands has come out publicly with a statement warning the industry against something music listeners have probably understood for some time. In the words of the Telegraph... |
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Student boffins take on iTunes' not-so-smart Genius » the register (uk) 'You like the Shadows? You'll love Herman's Hermits' Boffins in California say they have produced music-recommendation software which produces playlists "as good as" those from Apple's iTunes Genius - and which has the advantages of collecting no user... |
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New Lock Aims To End Chip Piracy » slashdot Stony Stevenson writes "Pirated microchips based on stolen blueprints could soon be a thing of the past thanks to computer engineers at Rice University and the University of Michigan. The engineers have devised a way to head off this costly infringement... |
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What's new in iTunes 8? » digg A new source comes forward w/this info: (this is consistent w/everything I've heard)iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the... |
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