Re:Sofistokated (Score 1)

I disagree. The people who can most benefit from really accurate, automatic categorization and recommendation of music are not the major labels / FM radio types. They had been getting by just fine with the old system of payola, record stores and using image as a surrogate for talent. The people who stand to really benefit from this are musicians who are making the type of music that YOU really want to hear but that, without automatic indexing and recommendation, you'd never discover on your own. Imagine you ask for "something like Radiohead but a bit more mellow" and, instead of being force-fed more Coldplay, you got a recommendation of a local band who were playing a gig just down the road tomorrow night. It's true that music is always going to be subjective and that even the best recommenders (e.g., friends or DJs) will make bad choices but with automatic analysis methods, there is the chance to analyze both the music and the listener to help people make really "personalized" discoveries that go beyond collaborative filtering or mass media.