HI,

Internet radio matches moods with algorithms. One can get this from the app store for iPhone or Android or for free any computer. I'm listening to "happy" right now for free on my desk top.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...-you-feel.html
http://evolver.fm/2011/05/13/review-...b-smartphones/


M

ah ah. so someone is finally making a buck out of mood-congruence.

i have noted my own appreciation for mood-congruent weather, clothing, music for a long time now.

it started with weather. when depressed and the weather was sunny - i called that mood-incongruent weather.

but geez. even with the clothes and the music, i never thought of the concept as marketable. but really... why shouldn't it be.

money money money
must be funny
it's a rich man's world

-- Abba

~ waves ~

I would love for this to work. I like the idea of easy.
My life doesn't work that way.

I got the iPhone app, but there were too many in the music played.

I love music. For someone with no musical talent whatever, I have wrapped pretty much every aspect of my life in music .. Classical, rock 'n roll, hillbilly, jazz, bluegrass, funk, pop, blues, country. I always wanted to be on Name that Tune. I would have cleaned up.

Music, you see, has always been my best friend. I had an invisible playmate who taught me to play the ear horn, a small instrument that only he & I knew about that exists in the inner ear. He told me I played it brilliantly. He alone could hear it, because ours were tuned together. So music was always with me, even in places & at times I couldn't have pets.

I guess it's not too surprising then that this app kept coming up with happy songs I'd known in a sad context & sad songs which made me . You get the idea. iTunes Genius ought to do a splendid job since it has a database of over 10,000 pieces of my music to learn from-- yet when it comes to suggesting new music for me, you'd think it hadn't a clue what I liked.

Maybe for normal people, it'll work, at least as a novelty. Me, I'll stick with my iPod. The playlists are pretty much by mood anyway--hadn't noticed before but it is.

I wonder how Genius works? Do you know?

Dear Waves,
I assumed that this probably worked in ways somewhat to what Netflix and Amazon do when they recommend movies or songs for people.

I am a million ways out of touch with weather so I think I understand what you are talking about. I am probably almost obnoxious about it. I think I respond "wrong" to their comments. To cover, I try to say almost nothing about weather except note when the moon is in an interesting phase (Not a great way to "cover"!!) Also probably not helpful in my workplace to mention the Wiccan observance coming up soon with the first day of fall.


Dear CarGal,

I can see of course now that you explained why the Stereomood dosn't work for many people. I've only tried it once. I like that it seemed not to fight with my computer. I have almost no music that I own. I listen to the car radio during my short-ish commute or to the cable tv-radio channel.


I love your descriptions of your inner life. You move along on the good side.

I played classical piano and jazz sax (poorly for the latter) in college until I sort of dropped out. I lived with music but I didn't embrace it with my whole being of body, spirit, and mind like a lot of other people do whether they study it or not. I miss it . . . I 'm trying to find ways I can stand to listen to ANY music again without being sad. .. . . that would be an improvement . . . .to listen to music that does not remind me of something sad. The global music on Stereomood I heard last night had no memories resonating. That's good.

Maybe next week I can find a 19 year to explain how Genius works on the iPod. If I learn something I will let you know.


M

Naaah, it's not like am talking about weather reports. i meant, like, i would be depressed, and have the window and shutters wide open at night (very hot summer in 2003, no fan, no A/C) then, sunrise and finally, inevitably noticeably GLARINGLY BRIGHT SUNSHINE would invade my room. ACK! down shutter shut window. and not just for the heat. it seemed "happy" and it resonated wrong within me. that's what i mean by noticing incongruence. i would define congruent weather to depression would as an overcast dull day, with or without rain. but again. this is stuff i noticed first hand when exposed to it. i don't think i talked about it much other than maybe in the forums.

i love when we have threads on the moon. i love the moon. does that count as weather? doesn't matter. i still love it.

HA! love ittttt!!!

~ waves ~