David Rusenko

thisismyjam.com 03/27/2008

It's always interesting to see new technology for sound. There's a huge opportunity for someone to create software that's better able to understand music the way a DJ might (BPM, key, etc) and automatically create a mix by beatmatching and cycling through the circle of fifths, for example.

thisismyjam.com tries to do that. It's a demo product built on The Echo Nest APIs. It's cool to see something like this on the web, but from my testing, it's about as good as existing software out there that's desktop-based or built into hardware like the Pioneer CMX-3000.

There's no reason why a computer can't eventually do the same thing a human DJ can. In the meantime, here's a quick mix I created with thisismyjam.

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Nivi

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:29:11

Badass product with a badass interface and a badass name.

This is my jam: http://nivi.thisismyjam.com/?20080328032524

(listeners must enjoy offensive language)

Ara

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:43:40

i know i have a blog... but i have an account here... btw HOLA FROM MEXICO, i want to participate in the contest but guess what?? i can't download the logo, can you put it in a .jpg format, or the logo is the 3 squares with the rounded corners?? if it is i can take a picture of the home page and use it... plz can you send me back an answerd??

jim

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:55:49

Hey David,
Thanks for the post.

Keep in mind www.thisismyjam.com is only beat-matching 30 second samples, which does limit what our API can do.

Check out http://the.echonest.com/analyze.html to play with the API and see for yourself.

I agree people are still way better at making music than computers. In the meantime, I'll see if anyone here is willing to take on your automatic circle-of-fifths challenge.

alejandra

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:17:37

hello well i just wanted to tlk to you about the contest. I have a couple of the designs but i find it hard to choose one of them. So my question was that if i could turn them all and you choose the one you really like. Llike i said it's hard for me to choose so please help me. And also, im like new and so far this website is awsome. I really enjoy all it's options thank you again and i hope to hear from you soon thank you!

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David Rusenko is a founder at Weebly, a company that makes a web creation tool that doesn't suck. He's also a part-time DJ and traveling enthusiast.

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