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Moodagent — free app for generating playlists

Moodagent has only been out about three weeks and already has over 200,000 downloads and is currently averaging 25,000 downloads a day. Pretty impressive. It's a freebie that lets you move sliders to indicate the type of music you want to hear, and in seconds it generates playlists. It uses the song's actual content to make recommendations based on digital analysis of the music. This is in contrast to Apple's Genius, which makes recommendations based on purchase history. Plus, even if the metadata about a song is missing in your library, Moodagent can still find it, because it's based on the sounds themselves rather than song info.

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Jim Karpen's picture

I have a Ph.D. in literature and writing, and a love of gizmos. I work part-time for iPhone Life magazine and really enjoy the people I work with, my iPad, and Apple's visionary products. It feels like a revolution. My Ph.D. dissertation, completed long ago, focused on the revolutionary consequences of digital technologies and anticipated some of the things we're seeing today.

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Update on Downloads

 Moodagent now has over 200,000 downloads and is in the top 5 free apps in the music category in most App Stores (US #3, India #2, Korea #2, China #5, ...). For the past few days it is averaging approximately 25,000 downloads per day. 

Thanks

I appreciate your update. I got my figures from the press release. I've edited my post to reflect your figures.

Jim