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Predictive Wedding DJ

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by firebus
07/30/2008 - 15:09

First, we need to find a way to get playlists from as many weddings as possible and feed them to the robot.

Then we can calculate the probability that any given song will follow any other song in a wedding playlist.

Finally, we are left with a system that, given the "first dance" song, can probabilistically generate a wedding playlist containing all the songs that are always played at every wedding in a reasonable order.

Version 2.0 allows the user to specify the type of event (bar mitzvah, quinceañera), ethnicity and average age of attendees for a more targeted, yet totally recognizable, playlist.

Thanks to Jonas for helping me hammer out the specifics and target market for this business plan.


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Wed, 07/30/2008 - 15:13 — firebus
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An edge case

Chim asked, "what would your software come up with based on [obscure yet awesome song that might have been the first dance at my wedding]?"

I replied, "i imagine that if faced with a first dance that does not exist in it's database, and lacking the ability to figure out artist, genre, etc.
we'd just give you the most popular second song of wedding djs nationwide, which is probably sinatra, since the parents are still dancing at this point."

Perhaps version 3.0 can integrate with FreeDB and we can do an analysis to correlate artist/track/title with the demographic data we started tracking in version 2.0


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