Phew, what a start! First of all, thanks to you all of you for taking the time to show your interest in mufin – that’s really awesome. We got some great reviews from all over the Web, like here, here, and here..or here. According to the comments and reviews, most people asked for full track playback, and some responded that the recommendendations didn’t always seem to make sense. We want to offer the full track too, but it simply wasn’t possible to implement this in the time we had available to us, since getting the recommendations right was our first priority. But as you can see, we designed the interface with full track capability in mind, you can create playlists using “More options” and also pop-out the player (that little rectangle in the upper right corner of the player).

You may get some ‘freakomendations‘ like here, but always look out for the musical similarties of the recommended track and not the genre, similar title name, or artist image like ‘nineinchnailsvsbritneyspears’ *cough*. We’re constantly trying to improve the recommendation algorithm and have some great features in the works that will allow you to tailor the recommendations to your individual tastes in music.

On the downside, we had some typical private beta technical problems with album covers and prelistening tracks not loading, but they are fixed now.

Times are changing, because from now on, mufin, your music discovery engine, is live! Tell mufin about your favorite songs and it will respond with songs that sound similar –  mufin only needs to analyze a song’s sound to help you discover new music – popularity, origin, or genre aren’t important. We’ve designed the user interface so that it’s easy to see similarities between the songs, giving you the opportunity to browse our music catalog based on the sound alone. My latest discovery is “Kopfüberkreuz” by Monochrome, a small German band, and I originally started the sound discovery process with Faith No More’s “Star A.D“.

Our new site is still in private beta; we’re still polishing up the site design and usability to make sure that we’ve ironed out any remaining bugs. And of course, we can already incorporate your feedback about what we can improve or what should stay the way it is. Don’t worry if you haven’t gotten an invite code yet – just leave your email here, and we’ll let you know as soon as we have some more seats available onboard. Have fun discovering new music!