Comments on: MusicBox Browser Visually Maps Your Music Collection http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/01/01/musicbox-browser-visually-maps-your-music-collection/ Synthesizer and electronic music news, synth and music software reviews and more! Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:39:24 -0500 hourly 1 By: AL: http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/01/01/musicbox-browser-visually-maps-your-music-collection/#comment-131380 AL: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:18:41 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/?p=10221#comment-131380 This is a pretty cool concept for an interface for sorting through a song collection... especially the larger and more diverse the collection. I like the ability to turn off sorting criteria (artificial factors like "genre"). One thing I didn't see in the video was a way to turn off display of certain subsets, like certain elements of the genre category. If you have a really big collection, you could face thousands of little colored circles in the main display, and it would be useful to be able to remove certain elements. Maybe that feature is in there... I'll have to dig through her thesis and find out. Still... cool interface... interesting way to create various themed play lists, based on progressions of harmonic content or rhythms. This is a pretty cool concept for an interface for sorting through a song collection… especially the larger and more diverse the collection. I like the ability to turn off sorting criteria (artificial factors like “genre”).

One thing I didn’t see in the video was a way to turn off display of certain subsets, like certain elements of the genre category. If you have a really big collection, you could face thousands of little colored circles in the main display, and it would be useful to be able to remove certain elements.

Maybe that feature is in there… I’ll have to dig through her thesis and find out.

Still… cool interface… interesting way to create various themed play lists, based on progressions of harmonic content or rhythms.

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