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I’ve been playing around with Last.fm, the popular music recommendation engine. The service reads the list of songs I play in iTunes and creates a profile used by Last.fm to recommend other people and music I may like based on what I’ve been listening to. After looking into Last.fm and other music recommendation services like Pandora, I came across the iTunes Signature Maker.
iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks your system configuration and asks you a few simple questions, iTSM will spend a few minutes analyzing your collection and generating the audio signature.
The website for the service even states:
Maybe you’ll load your iTunes signature onto your iPod, e-mail it to some friends, share it in our signature gallery, or stick it on your home page. Maybe it will help you gauge your compatibility with your next blind date: “She seems nice enough, but her iTunes signature is just so atonal! Should I go with my heart or with my ear?
What a great idea. Let’s see someone Match Meyer’s Briggs and other tests with their musical counterparts. How much do you think you would learn from listening to a few minutes of someone’s iPod? Listen to my Itunes Signature.
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Actually, research into the relationship between music preferences and personality traits has already been completed and published. There’s some significant correspondence when the data is modeled correctly, so a compatibility test of sorts could be created (but it would be somewhat rudimentary).
Nevertheless, I’ve recently toyed with the idea of making such a music-based compatibility test matching algorithms) with some colleagues of mine. There seems no reason why a matching algorithm could not be created for iTune Signatures. Done well, it could estimate platonic and romantic compatibility.
Seems it would be a great application for iPod or a general networking sites like MySpace.
Thanks,
James Houran, Ph.D.
Research Psychologist
Musical profiles are already alive on Myspace, it’s called a playlist. No testing required.
While many people do like various genres, there is actually much revealed about a person when they take a stand about their most and least favorites. Kudos to Drs. Jason Rentfrow and Rense Lange (www.iknowsys.org) for these findings!
Thanks,
James Houran, PhD
Research Psychologist
Also:
- Handwriting and Personality Traits: requires a qualified analyst (graphologist), i.e. cannot be automated with enough reliability. Anyway, the evaluation will be subjective, could be biased, with a great error margin.
- Colors and Personality Traits: Interesting to see http://www.deweycolorsystem.com/ validated by
http://www.iknowsys.org/
You can see the validation whitepaper at
http://www.iknowsys.org/?page_name=dewey
http://www.deweycolorsystem.com/credentials/PDFS/DCS_23.pdf
It is interesting to see how that color method used to evaluate personality ADDS DISTORTION to
the measurement (page 07 and figure 2 continued of whitepaper)
Why do not “drinking directly from the source”?
A well-known Personality Test like 16PF5 or IPIP-NEO
http://www.personalitytest.net/ipip/ipipneo1.htm
Kindest Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
Ah well. It’s on OUR roadmap, at least :)