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.