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onkelchrispy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:03:12 -0800

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.

By: onkelchrispy

onkelchrispy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:12:53 -0800

i should note that the description of the itunes signature maker is that of its autor, not my own.

By: donkelly

donkelly — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:21:36 -0800

Uh - not really that helpful - is it. I couldn't tell any of the songs or groups you listen to.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:22:51 -0800

I couldn't tell any of the songs or groups you listen to. I think one of them was R2-D2

By: onkelchrispy

onkelchrispy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:38:24 -0800

depressingly accurate robot johnny!

By: bendybendy

bendybendy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:48:37 -0800

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.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:09:34 -0800

Alright, here's mine, which coincidentally I did earlier today before this post...

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:18:14 -0800

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.

By: andendau

andendau — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:18:19 -0800

mine

By: provolot

provolot — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:20:08 -0800

mine, too.

By: provolot

provolot — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:21:07 -0800

my bad... let's try that again. mine, too

By: chococat

chococat — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:26:01 -0800

...number nine, number nine, number nine...

By: freebird

freebird — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:28:23 -0800

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.

By: 31d1

31d1 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:33:10 -0800

I'm proud of mine. This is surprisingly neat!

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:08:15 -0800

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.)

By: 31d1

31d1 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:08:46 -0800

It funny that since there is no de minimis protection on sampling, we could all get in big trouble.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:08:58 -0800

"Your bands suck."

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:08:59 -0800

mine very cool! : >

By: freebird

freebird — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:12:25 -0800

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.

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:14:25 -0800

(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".)

By: 31d1

31d1 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:15:44 -0800

freebird: "... it's a bummer it can't use stuff bought from iTunes." wow, no kidding. eep.

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:16:21 -0800

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.

By: Serial Killer Slumber Party

Serial Killer Slumber Party — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:29:33 -0800

My one finished on Moby's 'Porcelain' which I thought was very class. Is it completely random how they select the order?

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:35:18 -0800

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??

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:47:58 -0800

yup, joe! i love that song!

By: LooseFilter

LooseFilter — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:54:18 -0800

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.

By: wigu

wigu — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:59:40 -0800

Finally! Something to eliminate that whole annoying "asking somebody what kind of music they like" chore!

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:06:00 -0800

I made two with different settings.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:14:14 -0800

"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*

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:22:00 -0800

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.

By: dhruva

dhruva — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:24:53 -0800

Here's mine.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:54:50 -0800

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

By: 13twelve

13twelve — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:18:09 -0800

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.

By: kimota

kimota — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:56:23 -0800

onkelchrispy, were you perchance checking out Bare Bones Software's new Yojimbo when you found this?

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:25:04 -0800

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.

By: Witty

Witty — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:34:22 -0800

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

By: funambulist

funambulist — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:54:24 -0800

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 :)

By: bouncebounce

bouncebounce — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:57:29 -0800

Very cool wee toy. However, everyone's signature sounds like Negativland tracks. (no bad thing)

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:13:09 -0800

Is there one that just analyses your mp3 collection?

By: funambulist

funambulist — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:15:58 -0800

Ok here's mine. Super short version.

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:27:36 -0800

this awesome almost makes me want to start using itunes more...

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:11:02 -0800

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.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:46:53 -0800

Guy Smiley: Was that the theme from Taxi? What is that doing in your iTunes playlist?

By: ab3

ab3 — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:05:46 -0800

what if... www.jasonfreeman.net was owned by the RIAA? wouldn't that be cool? (it's not, but... it could've been...)

By: moonbird

moonbird — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:24:10 -0800

music in a blender, whoodathunkit?

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:35:05 -0800

very fun. best of the web.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:53:19 -0800

And everything with an undercurrent of Ira Glass.

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:10:43 -0800

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.

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:12:46 -0800

(Was that Múm chiming a couple times in yours, odinsdream?)

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:17:35 -0800

(The name-that-tune aspect is really pleasurable, like finding the tiny Joanna Newsom snippet in bendybendy's)

By: sydnius

sydnius — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:17:41 -0800

mine

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:43:51 -0800

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.

By: Dantien

Dantien — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:29:42 -0800

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

By: rachsumat

rachsumat — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:43:08 -0800

Mine.

By: ab3

ab3 — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:52:54 -0800

mine

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:06:50 -0800

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?

By: chrismear

chrismear — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:27:41 -0800

I made one of these a while ago; no idea what settings I used. I was surprised at how well everything fit together.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:53:46 -0800

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.)

By: o2b

o2b — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:39:45 -0800

I actually really dig mine. Although I do rock a *little* harder than it implies :)

By: o2b

o2b — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:41:20 -0800

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.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:14:25 -0800

It was indeed, nobody!