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iTunes Signature Maker! It analyzes your itunes music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. Here is mine.
posted by onkelchrispy (58 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
i should note that the description of the itunes signature maker is that of its autor, not my own.
posted by onkelchrispy at 8:12 PM on January 23, 2006


Uh - not really that helpful - is it. I couldn't tell any of the songs or groups you listen to.
posted by donkelly at 8:21 PM on January 23, 2006


I couldn't tell any of the songs or groups you listen to.

I think one of them was R2-D2
posted by Robot Johnny at 8:22 PM on January 23, 2006


depressingly accurate robot johnny!
posted by onkelchrispy at 8:38 PM on January 23, 2006


mine. I get the sense that onkelchrispy is really into whizzy-swirly things. I made out Brian Ferry's voice, I think. I'm clearly into shuffling power-chordy things.
posted by bendybendy at 8:48 PM on January 23, 2006


Alright, here's mine, which coincidentally I did earlier today before this post...
posted by Robot Johnny at 9:09 PM on January 23, 2006


man, I just get so nervous about granting a stranger write privileges to run java code on my pc... maybe I'm just overly paranoid.
posted by jonson at 9:18 PM on January 23, 2006


mine
posted by andendau at 9:18 PM on January 23, 2006


mine, too.
posted by provolot at 9:20 PM on January 23, 2006


my bad... let's try that again.

mine, too
posted by provolot at 9:21 PM on January 23, 2006


...number nine, number nine, number nine...
posted by chococat at 9:26 PM on January 23, 2006


I think that is totally awesome. Great idea, great post. I agree it would kinda be neat to know what the songs are, but there's a bazillion services out there to do that. This is just a neat summation - super cool.

Here's mine.
posted by freebird at 9:28 PM on January 23, 2006


I'm proud of mine. This is surprisingly neat!
posted by 31d1 at 9:33 PM on January 23, 2006


I can make out a few of the individual pieces in mine (including the Carpenters, Patty Griffin, J.S. Bach, and at least a couple of Rilo Kiley songs.)
posted by Guy Smiley at 10:08 PM on January 23, 2006


It funny that since there is no de minimis protection on sampling, we could all get in big trouble.
posted by 31d1 at 10:08 PM on January 23, 2006


"Your bands suck."
posted by orthogonality at 10:08 PM on January 23, 2006


mine

very cool! : >
posted by amberglow at 10:08 PM on January 23, 2006


With the longer ones it seems more a wanderingly random decoupage. I think I like the short ones best. Not their fault, but it's a bummer it can't use stuff bought from iTunes.
posted by freebird at 10:12 PM on January 23, 2006


(in addition to "Revolution 9" these collages remind me of the very beginning of the movie Contact and WKRP's "The Contest Nobody Could Win".)
posted by Guy Smiley at 10:14 PM on January 23, 2006


freebird: "... it's a bummer it can't use stuff bought from iTunes."

wow, no kidding. eep.
posted by 31d1 at 10:15 PM on January 23, 2006


This is sweet. Hey amberglow, is that a burst of "The Queen of Detroit" by plus/minus I caught in the opening of your sig? This whole concept makes for excellent "name that tune" training material.
posted by joe lisboa at 10:16 PM on January 23, 2006


My one finished on Moby's 'Porcelain' which I thought was very class. Is it completely random how they select the order?
posted by Serial Killer Slumber Party at 10:29 PM on January 23, 2006


I'm pretty sure it saves your most-listened-to song for the end. I tried it twice with different settings and both ended with Beck's cover of the Flaming Lips' Do You Realize??
posted by Robot Johnny at 10:35 PM on January 23, 2006


yup, joe! i love that song!
posted by amberglow at 10:47 PM on January 23, 2006


OK, so I did two, to see if the number of layers/sample time made a difference--both pretty eclectic, especially if you listen close. The first one, with up to 5 layers, is here.

The second one, with only up to 3 layers, is here.
posted by LooseFilter at 10:54 PM on January 23, 2006


Finally! Something to eliminate that whole annoying "asking somebody what kind of music they like" chore!
posted by wigu at 10:59 PM on January 23, 2006


I made two with different settings.
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 11:06 PM on January 23, 2006


"iTunes Signature Maker has detected a small problem with your Quicktime installation and repaired it.

Please quit and relaunch your web browser for the change to take effect.

Then come back to iTunes Signature Maker and you'll be ready to begin!"


What the fuck!? But I didn't ask you to "fix" anything on my fucking computer, nor did you warn of any such fixins, you chundering malcontent of an ether-goggled baby-stabber.

So you did exactly what, now?

"Boring technical details: Quicktime includes two component files — "QTJava.zip" and "QTJava.dll," which iTSM needs to find in order to run. We found these files on your computer, but they were not in the required location to be loaded by the Java virtual machine. So we copied them to this location. Apple's iTunes / Quicktime installer normally does this automatically, but for some reason it did not do it on your computer. (Usually, this is because you installed Java after you installed Quicktime.)"

Oh... Ok. I think. Err, sorry.

*eyes computer warily*
posted by loquacious at 12:14 AM on January 24, 2006 [1 favorite]


iTunes Signature Maker cannot find all the Quicktime components it needs on your system.

To upgrade your system:

* If a popup dialog comes up and asks you to install the Quicktime for Java component, install it. Then restart your web browser and come back to iTSM.

* If no popup dialog comes up, then you must upgrade to the latest version of iTunes. You can download iTunes from Apple's web site. After installing iTunes, restart your web browser and come back to iTSM.

* If you already upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and you are still being brought to this page, then please uninstall Quicktime from your system (using the Add/Remove Programs tool in the Control Panel) and reinstall iTunes. Sorry to put you through this, but sometimes Apple's Quicktime installations get a little weird on Windows and this is the only solution.

If you followed all of these steps and are still experiencing problems, please contact me.


*sigh* Oh well. Yeah, I could do that. Not going to.

Besides, it'd probably scan my music and calculate a signature that already existed as some song or another in my library, and then a wormhole would open up and swallow us all.
posted by loquacious at 12:22 AM on January 24, 2006


Here's mine.
posted by dhruva at 12:24 AM on January 24, 2006


The FPP link sounds like a b-side off Suspended Animation by Phantomas...
posted by slimepuppy at 1:54 AM on January 24, 2006


The first tune is in the one on the fpp is System of a Down. I recognised more tunes but then got scared by just how freaky the whole thing sounded.
posted by 13twelve at 3:18 AM on January 24, 2006


onkelchrispy, were you perchance checking out Bare Bones Software's new Yojimbo when you found this?
posted by kimota at 3:56 AM on January 24, 2006


Here's mine

Lots of East Coast Canadian stuff, mostly because I always go on a listening binge before seeing a band play a show. The song at the end is Orca by Wintersleep (which you can listen to on their website) from their website) which I think is a great song.
posted by Space Coyote at 4:25 AM on January 24, 2006


The FPP link sounds like a b-side off Suspended Animation by Phantomas...

Or Fantomas even...
posted by Witty at 4:34 AM on January 24, 2006


This is fun but maddening! it should default to 2 or 3 layers, otherwise it's almost impossible.

I could only detect the presence of Laura by the Scissor Sisters in onkelchrispy's signature. And a lot of strange noises :)
posted by funambulist at 5:54 AM on January 24, 2006


Very cool wee toy. However, everyone's signature sounds like Negativland tracks.

(no bad thing)
posted by bouncebounce at 5:57 AM on January 24, 2006


Is there one that just analyses your mp3 collection?
posted by Eideteker at 6:13 AM on January 24, 2006


Ok here's mine. Super short version.
posted by funambulist at 6:15 AM on January 24, 2006


this awesome
almost makes me want to start using itunes more...
posted by es_de_bah at 6:27 AM on January 24, 2006


I made another one with only 3 sonts layered at once and it's far less interesting, just a sequence of clips from my playlist without the interesting juxtapositions.
posted by Space Coyote at 7:11 AM on January 24, 2006


Guy Smiley: Was that the theme from Taxi? What is that doing in your iTunes playlist?
posted by The Bellman at 7:46 AM on January 24, 2006


what if... www.jasonfreeman.net was owned by the RIAA?

wouldn't that be cool?

(it's not, but... it could've been...)
posted by ab3 at 8:05 AM on January 24, 2006


music in a blender, whoodathunkit?
posted by moonbird at 8:24 AM on January 24, 2006


very fun. best of the web.
posted by NationalKato at 8:35 AM on January 24, 2006


I'll have to try this when I get home, but iTunes on my machine at work (whose library, it turns out, is limited to a few versions of the theme song from the cartoon I'm editing and some bits from dialog record sessions) made this and this.
posted by nobody at 9:10 AM on January 24, 2006


(Was that Múm chiming a couple times in yours, odinsdream?)
posted by nobody at 9:12 AM on January 24, 2006


(The name-that-tune aspect is really pleasurable, like finding the tiny Joanna Newsom snippet in bendybendy's)
posted by nobody at 9:17 AM on January 24, 2006


mine
posted by sydnius at 9:17 AM on January 24, 2006


It reminds me of that scene in The Lawnmower Man where Jeff Fahey's character listens to classical music in split-second snippets, because his highly advanced (and ultimately dangerous) mind can extrapolate the entire piece from only a few notes.
posted by NationalKato at 9:43 AM on January 24, 2006


mine

So NK, using your highly advanced (and ultimately dangerous) mind, what can you extrapolate from mine?
posted by Dantien at 10:29 AM on January 24, 2006


Mine.
posted by rachsumat at 11:43 AM on January 24, 2006


mine
posted by ab3 at 11:52 AM on January 24, 2006


So NK, using your highly advanced (and ultimately dangerous) mind, what can you extrapolate from mine?

Some Ben Folds, some Chuck D. (?) and a bunch of music I gave you?
posted by NationalKato at 12:06 PM on January 24, 2006


I made one of these a while ago; no idea what settings I used. I was surprised at how well everything fit together.
posted by chrismear at 12:27 PM on January 24, 2006


Or Fantomas even...
posted by Witty at 4:34 AM PST on January 24 [!]


Or Fantômas even...
Hah! Burn!
(Yeah, I'm quite new to Fantômas, so it's an honest mistake.)
posted by slimepuppy at 12:53 PM on January 24, 2006


I actually really dig mine.

Although I do rock a *little* harder than it implies :)
posted by o2b at 2:39 PM on January 24, 2006


It occurs to me that making one of these every six months or so would give you a nice picture of your historical habits, or least a taste of it. I often forget about stuff I enjoyed in the past cause it just gets shoved out of mind by new stuff.
posted by o2b at 2:41 PM on January 24, 2006


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