1-click playlists
Personal music libraries are increasing in size by the day. The larger music collection become, the more songs are lost track of. Also songs get added, moods change, but conventional playlists stay the same. mufin injects life into music archives and makes tedious searching and manual creation and adaptation of playlists a thing of the past.
Simply select one or more tracks that match your current mood. mufin then automatically creates in seconds a playlist full of music with a similar style that perfectly matches the track(s). This way users can re-discover forgotten gems in their music collection.
On the move and in the groove: mufin playlists can be transferred to MP3 players, PDAs, and cell phones with a click. Over and above, users can experience the 1-click generation of personalized and uniquely harmonized playlists on mobile devices, even though they lack the processing power for the initial music analysis. For this purpose a mufin enabled and activated similarity matrix gets transferred to the device in addition to the music tracks.
The interpretation of the similarity matrices can easily be integrated into the device´s firmware or implemented using the mufin mobile application.
Music recommendation & discovery
Staying current with the newest releases or breaking artists and finding new music that matches one´s taste can be very challenging.
mufin already knows the musical characteristics of over four million music tracks and this number is increasing by the day! Again users simply select tracks they like and mufin will supply a list of similar tracks they might like.
These recommendations can be filtered by release date, sales ranking or user´s rating. In addition it will be possible to individually adjust the parameters (e.g. search only for similar melody or similar voice), making it an interactive, revealing discovery process.
This empowers users to expand their musical horizons the easiest way imaginable.
The mufin recommendation of similar tracks can be integrated into any music download shop in order to boost sales and promote less well-known artists. Music is no longer categorised as either Independent or mainstream, but rather "Like it" , “Not like it“. And unlike editorial systems, a song can be found right from the moment the song information and corresponding fingerprints have been added to the database.
Navigation through visualization
Today, several thousand music tracks can already fit on a conventional playback device such as a portable MP3 player or mobile phone. Even though more and more music can be saved on less space and is then ready to enjoy, listeners still navigate through music the conventional way: via text. Using text to navigate through digital music with thousands of tracks, however, means it's far too easy to not see the wood for the trees. Moreover, additional information such as artist and track names are often incomplete or wrong, which makes navigating even more difficult.
We''ve therefore decided to make navigating through digital music so simple that you can quickly find a suitable music track among thousands of tracks within seconds. Mufin Vision is the first ideal solution for navigating through digital music collections using a graphic interface. Due to the visual nature of this type of navigation, errors resulting from false or missing text-based information are impossible. Mufin Vision is used by MAGIX MP3 Maker 14. The renowned UK magazine SoftwareEditorial.com wrote:
April 2008, MP3 Maker 14
"Magix call this technique Mufin Vision and it is based on work done at the world-famous Fraunhofer Institue. the good news is that it works fantastically well and is one reason alone for buying this product."