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Re:MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music li... by mynameishere on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @01:10AM (#399269)
beats per minute, length, tone, and a whole bunch of other semi-tangible quantities

Not once have I ever gone through my collection looking for a song fitting any of the above particular qualities. Maybe some have, but when Pink floyd, the Clash, and Beethoven can occasionally aggree on BPM, it becomes a distinctly useless metric.

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Re:MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music li... by mullr on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @01:18AM (#399275)
But for a DJ looking to beat match songs, it's a pretty important thing.
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Re:MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music li... by Hast on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @08:35AM (#399462)
The point is that those are metrics which the computer uses to classify the music. You can then find similar music which may not be obvious at first. (Just look at the video to see examples.)
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