Stairway to heaven

Petar
by: Petar
date: 27.02.2009

Fasten your seatbelts, the mufin player is here! 'So what', you say? Well the mufin player is the  best first media player that lets you sort your music library by sound. Sounds good, eh? With mufin.com, we wanted to give you an alternative way to discover new music, and with the mufin player, we're giving you a completely new way to manage and organize your music library – 'sorting by sound' is what it's all about.

mufin player with soundsort and online music recommendation enabled

 

 

The mufin player doesn't just sort your music by artists or track names like you are used to, but also by sound similarity. It's not just useful when you're building a playlist, but also to keep track of which music tracks go together in your library musically. Since its all based on sound, all tracks in your collection will be included in the sorting, no matter if they have proper META information like album or artist name or not. Overall, the mufin player has a lot of great stuff packed into it:

  • mufin soundsort: As mentioned before, 'soundsort' allows you to sort your music library by sound.
  • Integration with mufin.com: You can get and listen to music recommendations from mufin.com for any track in your library. In addition, when you log into mufin.com using the mufin player, you can see which tracks have been recently played and also which tracks have been played the most on your discovery dashboard.
  • Completion of META data: If you have any tracks in your library that are missing information like artists or album name, mufin 'audioid' lets you fix it in a flash.
  • Playlist generation: The mufin player features the same playlist generation as mufin for iTunes. It works better than other playlist generation stuff out there, or at least that's what these guys say!
  • Burn/import CDs, fast 'as-you-type' search and lots of other stuff: If you're into details, you can find them here.

Just in case you were wondering, the mufin player is basically the next version of the mufin MusicFinder we released a while ago. However, these programs only share 'mufin' in their product name; it's a completely different beast on the outside and on the inside. Grab your free copy of the mufin player beta here (Windows 2k/XP/Vista, 32 MB)

22 Comments
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yo... love this post.
Comment by STAFLIAW - 11.12.2009 @ 19:46
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Great site...keep up the good work.
Comment by Dryer Vent Cleaning - 19.09.2009 @ 11:13
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Really nice skin on that app =0
Comment by MMORPG - 04.07.2009 @ 11:04
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Yeah, thanks for that fast reply. In between I've also discovered the status bar. Unfortunatelly, it is behind that playlist generation button (or this button is in front of the status bar). I'm using Windows XP Pro SP3. Maybe you can fix that problem in your next revision. Cheers zazi
Comment by zazi - 21.04.2009 @ 19:42
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glad you like mufin for iTunes. When mufin for iTunes is analyzing tracks, it shows a orange progress bar. The bar contains the currently analyzed tracks as well as the number of tracks remaining. If no progress bar is shown, all tracks have been analyzed.
Comment by Petar - 21.04.2009 @ 16:26
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Well, I'm enjoying the mufin iTunes plugin now for a while. The recommendations are generally really good. Unfortunatelly, I updated my iTunes media library with ~2.600 new tracks and also mufin analysed those tracks, but where is a status bar that shows me the actual state of the analysis. This features is really necessary so that the user knows when mufin expects to finish its analysis. Cheers zazi
Comment by zazi - 21.04.2009 @ 09:53
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[...] [...] a music recommendation service we looked at a few times in the past, just released a stand-alone music player for Windows that combines some of the most interesting features of [...] [...]
Trackback by Mufin Player: Music Jukebox With a Focus on Recommendations | Te - 03.04.2009 @ 20:20
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This is a great piece of information. I am really happy to know that mufin player one of the first media players is here. It actually lets you sort your music library by sound. Cool!!! :-)
Comment by MP4 Players - 01.04.2009 @ 13:49
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[...] [...] a music recommendation service we looked at a few times in the past, just released a stand-alone music player for Windows that combines some of the most interesting features of [...] [...]
Trackback by AMB Album » Mufin Player: Music Jukebox With a Focus on Re - 31.03.2009 @ 02:34
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Thank you Mufin! I downloaded this player with a healthy dose of skepticism, but I've been loving it thus far. I usually start with a song I like and then create a playlist from my collection. I have such a vast collection that most of the songs I've never heard (or only heard once when I bought the CD). Now I'm rediscovering music that I didn't know I'd enjoy! And your player is pretty solid too. I was anticipating that I'd use the playlists generated on my Zune client, but right now I use the Mufin player exclusiviely on my desktop, and will just sync the playlists when I use the actual Zune device. Again, my appreciation! KSG
Comment by Kang Su - 05.03.2009 @ 16:24
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@gagahput3ra: sure its twitter.com/mufin
Comment by Petar - 02.03.2009 @ 10:50
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@John: Overall we're using 40 low-level characteristics, like tempo, sound density, sound color, vocals. However not all do directly translate into a musical concept and some are rather mathmatical.
Comment by Petar - 02.03.2009 @ 10:50
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[...] [...] a music recommendation service we looked at a few times in the past, just released a stand-alone music player for Windows that combines some of the most interesting features of [...] [...]
Trackback by ArticleSave :: Uncategorized :: Mufin Player: Music Jukebox With - 01.03.2009 @ 09:06
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"As mentioned before, ’soundsort’ allows you to sort your music library by sound." That phrase "by sound" is used several times, but we readers can't tell which attributes of the sound are used. BPM? Key? Modality? Dynamic range? Percussion style? Other?
Comment by John Dowdell - 28.02.2009 @ 20:29
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I just want to say thanks, have tried this for 2 days now, and it correctly gives similar song recommendation. This thing is awesome! :D Btw, does Muffin have twitter account?
Comment by gagahput3ra - 28.02.2009 @ 19:12
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Trackback by Mufin Player: Music Jukebox With a Focus on Recommendations | Th - 28.02.2009 @ 11:31
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Trackback by Mufin Player: Music Jukebox With a Focus on Recommendations | Sp - 28.02.2009 @ 00:31
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