The Future of Mood in Music

Source code

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:10:46 -0500

The source is online:

https://github.com/alexmic/mood-knobs

And.. a playlist is live.

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:47:40 -0500

And.. a playlist is live.

Oh right, pictures.

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:53:55 -0500

Oh right, pictures.

PROGRESS REPORT THREE

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:38:00 -0500

As the night falls, a lonely comrade continues his quest for coding zen.

PROGRESS REPORT TWO

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:20:05 -0500

Styling issues aside, we are making good progress. We get spotify tracks for good chunk of the falling songs. The Spotify API is damn fast! Good job.

Songs falling down, hurray! I’m sure Gearoid will not appreciate...

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:49:21 -0500

Songs falling down, hurray! I’m sure Gearoid will not appreciate my designs though.

Progress report one

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:13:59 -0500

We’re doing progress in short bursts, finding ourselves stumped by XHR troubles and malformed manifests.json. Ugh! However, the pizza has arrived. All is not lost.

Pretty knobs and dials.

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:29:42 -0500

Pretty knobs and dials.

Progress report zero.

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:25:33 -0500

Progress report zero.

Introducing: Mood Knobs

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:18:00 -0500

This is an introductory post to a 24 hour music hack day project.

What?

The idea: tune a search query using knobs, making the act of searching somewhat more physical. Each knob is connected to a mood (dark or rowdy, for example).

How?

Echonest provides an API that lets you search artist and tracks based on, incidentally, moods. Very useful.

The implementation surface, of course, is Spotify. The new App platform is just what we need to deploy a JS+CSS interface. The music playing facilities of above service will also come in handy.

What else?

More to follow.