Does Mufin Know Music? - Seeding Songs
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Mufin offers up a busy home page by Google standards, but it's not confusing by a long shot. Here's an image, reduced to fit:
Okay, anybody who knows me knows that I'm a big fan of the Beach Boys. So I figured this would be an easy way to test mufin; after all, if it can't come through for the Beach Boys, what hope would I have for it to find matches for, say, Tom Smith, Julia Ecklar, or Leslie Fish? I'm not disappointed; it returns 170 pages of results, at 10 results per page (you can change it to 20 or 30 per page if you wish). I'm going to show you a close up of one of the results on the list, because these aren't typical kinds of search results; there are things you can do with them.
As you can see, mufin includes the album cover, name of the song, name of the artist, and the name of the album. You can buy it, preview similar tracks, or click for more options. But I'd like to draw your attention to the lower left, next to the album cover. You'll notice what looks like an interface that will let you play the track. Unfortunately, it's greyed out in this example. That's because mufin doesn't have permission to play a lot of tracks. When you're fortunate enough to find one that isn't greyed out and decide to play it, it looks something like this:
“Girls On The Beach” is not my favorite Beach Boys song...which is just as well, since the site only streamed about 30 seconds of it. One reviewer commented that that's not long enough to tell the real character of a song; at the time, I thought he was being too fussy, but after listening I would have to agree. So instead, I'm going to preview tracks that are similar to “Good Vibrations,” since I know that song pretty well (hey, after a certain commercial hit the airwaves, who doesn't?). In mufin's lingo, “Good Vibrations” is my seed song to discovering more.
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