Finding songs that sound the same isn't really enough. It might make do for superfluous listening, but if you have more than a passing interest in music your re

Finding songs that sound the same isn't really enough. It might make do for superfluous listening, but if you have more than a passing interest in music your requirements will be different. Emotions and lyrics are much more important than the "sound" when I choose new music, and it will be a while until a computer program can categorize these. Remember that it isn't enough to just produce something that matches a pattern. This is a creative field we're talking about, music and movie tastes contain more human factors than just about any other problem tackled by computer scientists. As a case in point, Ayreon may do an excellent job of copying the darkly brooding and reflecting atmosphere of certain prog rock bands...but it's still a copy, and just under the surface it stinks of hypocrisy. Media recommendations is a huge problem (it bothers me on a personal level every day, I would pay at least 200$ a year for a service that works), but nothing I have seen so far has impressed me. I won't be sold until I get at least two recommendations that made me cry.