- The Filter has been discontinued
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Developer
exabre.com
The Filter is a neat, free piece of software that helps you build fantastic playlists from the music stored on your Mac. It's like a musical assistant who knows exactly which songs will fit together and which songs won't.
To build a playlist you open up iTunes and let The Filter analyse your library. You then click on 'Create a Playlist' to generate one based on your choice of artist or song. The music in the playlist comes from the music in your collection - it is a great way of rediscovering music you forgot you had!
Additional Features:
To build a playlist you open up iTunes and let The Filter analyse your library. You then click on 'Create a Playlist' to generate one based on your choice of artist or song. The music in the playlist comes from the music in your collection - it is a great way of rediscovering music you forgot you had!
Additional Features:
- Create playlists of
What's New
Version 2.4.5: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, iTunes 7 or later with 500 songs or more.
*Previously available here
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, iTunes 7 or later with 500 songs or more.
*Previously available here
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| Downloads:6,527 |
| Version Downloads:2,222 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : MP3 |
| License:Free |
| Date:20 Dec 2007 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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The Filter is a neat, free piece of software that helps you build fantastic playlists from the music stored on your Mac. It's like a musical assistant who knows exactly which songs will fit together and which songs won't.
To build a playlist you open up iTunes and let The Filter analyse your library. You then click on 'Create a Playlist' to generate one based on your choice of artist or song. The music in the playlist comes from the music in your collection - it is a great way of rediscovering music you forgot you had!
Additional Features:
To build a playlist you open up iTunes and let The Filter analyse your library. You then click on 'Create a Playlist' to generate one based on your choice of artist or song. The music in the playlist comes from the music in your collection - it is a great way of rediscovering music you forgot you had!
Additional Features:
- Create playlists of any length that match your mood.
- Update your iPod with automatically refreshing playlists
- Get personal music recommendations from the iTunes Store
- Share your music tastes on Facebook and MySpace
- Read information and reviews on the artists you are listening to.
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NadeemF reviewed on 06 Aug 2007
The recommendation algorithm is based on known relationships between songs, artists, or albums, genre etc. We return, by necessity, songs from your collection since we are not streaming music. We also do take into account your preferences, not just as you play a song ( i.e. skipping it will reduce it's chances of coming up, playing it and seeding it will increase the probablility) but would have read the iTunes database on startup and know your playcount, ratings etc.
The Filter will try and recommend the number of songs you request, you will find that if you have asked for a lot of recommenations from a band(s) for whom we are not overly familiar you may get "strange" recommendations but we will know some relationship between those songs based on people's playing, or purchase habits.
(The lack of familiarity can be because The Filter has not been run for long enough - most analysis of songs takes more time than the initial analysis stage, which is just a analysis of artists for speed purposes).
try again.
One thing I am keen to see is how this fares as a mobile app - any one tried it yet?
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dennish reviewed on 10 Apr 2007
Great free app, hands down the best iTunes plug-in I've used thus far.
There are a few bugs in the software, but I've been an Alpha tester and seen how far its come, so I'm sure they'll all get squashed soon.
Hoping I missed something, I read the Mac FAQ on The Filter's site. It says "The Filter server holds information on over four and a half million songs. That said, our server will not hold all of the songs that you hold in your library."
I have over 10,000 songs in my library, most of them tagged properly. How does The Filter only find 127 of them in its database? And how can I find out which songs have been matched and which haven't?
Obviously, I haven't had any luck with making a playlist. I'm not sure I selected a single song in the "vast database" on The Filter's servers, and I've been trying for fifteen minutes.
I'm going to give this up as a bad job for now. Maybe next version.
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It seems to work great otherwise.
[Powerbook G4, 2Gb ram, OS 10.4.10]