The Infinite Jukebox

iviv · 7 May 2014 at 21:55

What do you hate about your favourite songs? That they don't last forever? Now they can!

http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html
(Works best on chrome)

The Infinite jukebox lets you upload an mp3 (Or select from a list of popular/recent songs), analysis it, and then determines which parts of the song are similar enough that it can loop them together. And then it gives you something like this:

http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html?trid=TRMKLPJ145D33E9D09

Each of the arcs represents two points where the audio could be swapped. Then as the song plays, when it reaches one of those parts, either it jumps or continues playing, the idea being that the jumps are so clean that you don't notice it, and thus the song can play forever, jumping between parts without you really noticing.

Of course, you don't actually want to listen to something forever, but it's a pretty nifty idea, even if it isn't always as smooth or perfect as it should be, you can get some pretty funny loops.

mame · 7 May 2014 at 22:14

In about 97/98, A few of us used to drive to various towns just for something to do. On the way to Chester (I think) we all pulled into some pub. As we went inside, one friend, on impulse, chucked £1 into the jukebox which was 30p or a 5 for £1. For the first track he chose 'Jason Nevis/Run DMC It's like that'. By this point, he'd lost interest as everyone else was now at the bar and chatting etc so he just pressed the same song 5 times. It turned out to be some very rough/biker type pub. As the silence was lifted as the track kicked in (for the first time of 5) some very scary and very large biker type looked at my mate and said "I ******* hate this song"

dirtychinchilla · 7 May 2014 at 22:36

Dun dun der!

Gammawolf · 8 May 2014 at 01:07

It's too obvious when it does it on lyrics, might work better with instrumental only?

Tom0 · 8 May 2014 at 06:51

mame said:
In about 97/98, A few of us used to drive to various towns just for something to do. On the way to Chester (I think) we all pulled into some pub. As we went inside, one friend, on impulse, chucked £1 into the jukebox which was 30p or a 5 for £1. For the first track he chose 'Jason Nevis/Run DMC It's like that'. By this point, he'd lost interest as everyone else was now at the bar and chatting etc so he just pressed the same song 5 times. It turned out to be some very rough/biker type pub. As the silence was lifted as the track kicked in (for the first time of 5) some very scary and very large biker type looked at my mate and said "I ******* hate this song"

Hahaha. I did similar.

In the pub after work sat having a pint with a work buddy. Three guys comes in, two go to the bar, the third to the jukebox and sticks a load of songs on. Woeful selection; Elvis, Madonna, Kylie... Your usual middle aged woman's choices and its blasting. After about twenty minutes I get fed up, sneak over and pull the plug out. I wasn't sneaky as I thought. Pub fell silent and from the back three guys yelling "OI WE CHUCKED TWENTY QUID IN THERE". Oops.

Lartyconshayo · 8 May 2014 at 06:55

I was at a party in my university years with plenty of booze and some Moroccan woodbines floating around. Someone put a vinyl of Bob Marley's greatest hits on. At some point I realised that we'd been listening to 'jamming' forever because the record was skipping but so seamlessly you'd never notice.