WEB/TECH: 'Father of the MP3' Teaches Machines to Parse Music

Mufin, the latest music-recommendation engine, is going to tell you what to listen to, and it doesn't care what you think. Computers have been telling us what to listen to for years -- at least since Amazon first told us that if we like X, we might like Y. But humans always have a hand in those recommendations: Pandora hires music experts, while Apple's Genius and CBS's Last.fm use collaborative filtering that notices when songs, artists or albums appear in the same collections...

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