So far, we’ve used the search box inside MusicIP Mixer to search your local collection, and other websites. In an earlier post, I mentioned that we’ve added a new option: Search World. This post will explain more about that feature, and what it means.

Part of the advantage of having a metadata set like MusicDNS, tied to the MusicIP acoustic analysis, is that we get a pretty good idea of what most artists sound like. We can tell which songs are popular and that provides clues about which songs might best represent a given artist. Our Acoustic Discovery product allows our recommendation services to be used by other companies with music. One feature we’re often asked about is helping people who are looking for an artist, like Lily Allen, find music which may not be by Lily Allen (since they don’t have those songs), but which would still be interesting.

We call this service Global Music Link, or GML for short, because it links music globally. The world’s popular music meets the long tail. Hi!

Now, you can use this same service for free inside MusicIP Mixer with your own collection. Start by selecting “Search World” in the search box.

Next, type in the artist, album, or track you are looking for and press ENTER. The mixer will query our GML server to find matches for that text. Based on our database, the “most likely” match for what you typed will be selected, either an artist, album or track. A dialog box gives you a summary of the results.

Next, we make a mix based on the recommendation - you can see this on the status as a “GML Mix”. If we happen to guess the wrong match, you can right-click on the status bar, and see the alternate artist, album and track matches (up to the 10 most likely in each category).

If you want to know more about embedding GML style results into your own applications or websites, you can use our request form to get information.

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