Your Next Favourite Band

Feb 02 2009

Your Next Favourite Band is a service that ties into your Last.fm profile and attempts to predict what your next favourite band (duh) might be. I’ve run it a few times and it keeps saying the same thing: Jason Mraz. I really think they need to overhaul their algorithm because I dislike Jason Mraz.

2 responses so far

  1. Phil
    on 11 Feb 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Hi Kevin,

    Thanks for having a look at yournextfavband.com, sorry it hasn’t come up with a band you like. I just wanted to say that it’s not the algorithm’s fault that it is recommending you something you have heard and don’t like. Since we are using Last.fm data, the algorithm only knows what you have listened to from your Last.fm library. If you scrobbled a listen to Jason Mraz, the next time you checked yournextfavband.com you would get a new recommendation.

    Give it a go and let me know if it works out better!

    Phil

  2. Kevin Francis
    on 17 Feb 2009 at 12:47 am

    Thanks for the comment Phil, will do that and give it another spin. Good catch by the way, finding this far out blog :P

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