Hello community, We thought you might be interested in taking a look at our new project, musiCompass. It's available at <http://www.musicompass.net>. Ideas, suggestions or support is highly welcome and we would appreciate any feedback from you. Thank you for your time. The musiCompass team. ________________________________________________________________________ musiCompass : people artist music and their connections A consortium of www.wadi.de www. Audioscrobbler.com www.last.fm ________________________________________________________________________ Background musiCompass focuses on the world of music. Music is one of the best ways to express emotions and moods as a performer as well as a listener. Music has been, and continues to be at the centres of society. Artists create styles of music, people listen to them and develop identifications; collecting music, creating play lists and developing a unique music taste are trends of the time. musiCompass aims to bring people, artists and music together in a visual and interactive environment. Find concept at <http://www.musicompass.net> ________________________________________________________________________ Currently released realisations Implementation of user map and artist map in the new release of last.fm. User map and artist map display the social network and the connection to the artist as part of the new pop-up player. Find out more at <http://www.wadi.de/musicompass/userartistmap.html> ________________________________________________________________________ Development Music Map - Development of innovative methods to create a map for the entire world of music. Different approaches are involved to analyse and transfer the existing data of artist similarity and neighbourhood calculation for mapping. Find out more at <http://www.wadi.de/musicompass/musicmap.html> Semio Music - Analysis of the semantic connections of song titles. Match artists and people by a selection and combination of specific words? Find out more at <http://www.wadi.de/musicompass/semiomusic.html> ________________________________________________________________________ Project Related Links - <http://www.wadi.de> - <http://www.audioscrobbler.com> - <http://www.last.fm>