What if....

[ApocaRUFF]

There was a website that just played you various instruments, guitar rifts, beats, melodies, etc... and you either "like" or "dislike" the stuff as it plays. Eventually, enough data would be gathered to generate a track specifically tailored to your music taste.

Basically, it would just throw stuff at you. At first it's smaller 3-5 second clips of sound. Then, if you upvote it, next time around it'll be longer. If you downvote the longer one, it would eventually play the original again to see if you still like it. If you do, it'll play another longer one that is a bit different.

Basically, just making music by having stuff thrown at your ears until, through a series of votes, the algorithm behind the whole thing can put together a coherent track using all the stuff you liked.

[nick]

wouldn't it just be a giant mashup.

some things weren't meant to be put together, like pineapple and pizza, and Death In June and Iron Maiden

[ApocaRUFF]

wouldn't it just be a giant mashup.

some things weren't meant to be put together, like pineapple and pizza, and Death In June and Iron Maiden

The algorithm behind it would put together the pieces you find most enjoyable in a way that is pleasing to the human ear, so it's not just a giant mash-up. It would essentially be trying to create something coherent out of a lot of smaller pieces. A further example, through the voting process the website/program/whatever may discover that you like a certain type of melody in the middle of your track, but strongly dislike it at the beginning.

[LastDemon]

Yeah the issue is people have no idea what they want. There would have to be some sort of top 10 list of sound clips to base it off. People would see top 10 and go "wow that does sound good" and go from there.

[LastDemon]

wouldn't it just be a giant mashup.

some things weren't meant to be put together, like pineapple and pizza, and Death In June and Iron Maiden

Try this next time you have time
Get a pizza with barbecue sauce, sweet not smokey. Toss on a little bit of green peppers and onions, and a bunch of crushed red peppers. Cover all of that with light cheese, mozzarella and provolone, then top that with pineapple. Eat on a thin crust for best results.