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hungry for new music, a recommendation service try
Starting idea of following service was "I-WANT-SOME-NEW-MUSIC-!". The mini-site was written by me - music-fan whose #1-genre is progressive/trance. I hate listening to 300 songs to get 5 or 10 good of them; and recomendations from a single person usually fail & don't work me.
An approach of the service is based on grouping "users-2-user" recommendations. Each user should mark (or import) his favorites. The more matching songs with user you have the stronger recommendation from this user comes. Eventually all the user-recommendations are summarized and the results are sorted by their total "weight".
I think the recommendations-evaluation is pretty personal-based so I guess & hope that it could work.
(There are some more features implemented but the song-recommendations was the real #1-reason for this site; more detailed description is given in "about" on the website.)
Unfortunatelly there are still too few users registered, and most of them haven't even indicated their favorites, so the results are poor so far (as there are way too few user-to-user matches, which is what the recommendations are being built of).
I don't want to boost my ego like "Man, I have a website with x.000 users!". I JUST WANT SOME NEW MUSIC !
(In the past I've suggested this idea in a couple of places.)
Give it a try people. If you won't like it, at least I will get some matches -> recommendations -> and hopefuly meet some great tunes. ;o))
Don't expect any downloads. I'm not connected in any way to any e-shop, record label or whatever ... Also don't expect graphically overwhelming portal. (The truth is that this site is 99.9% pure text +CSS -banners (as I pay the webhosting from my own pocket).)
Thank you for your time.
The url is http://www.sounds4u.net/
BTW JavaScript is quite strongly used on the Sounds4U.net but should work with Mozilla/FF, MSIE6(5) and Opera8.
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