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Open source project aims to overhaul music search

By Jon Brodkin, Network World, 10/31/07

Software that listens to and analyzes music is driving a Sun open source project, which aims to build a music recommendation system that surpasses the systems used today by iTunes and Amazon.

Automated recommendations today are typically based not on analysis of the music, but on who�s listening to which songs, said Paul Lamere, principal investigator of Sun�s Search Inside the Music. If one customer buys a Beatles album, he�ll be told what other music has been purchased by fellow Beatles fans.

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