Flycasting: Using Collaborative Filtering to Generate a Playlist for Online Radio

  • Authors:
  • D. Hauver;J. French

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WEDELMUSIC '01 Proceedings of the First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music (WEDELMUSIC'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In recent years, the popularity of online radio has exploded.This new entertainment medium affords an opportunitynot available to conventional broadcast radio: theinstantaneous listening audience can be known, or whatis more important, the musical tastes of the current listeningaudience can be known. Thus, it is possible in thenew medium to tailor the playlist in real-time to the musicaltastes of the listening audience. We discuss a method,termed flycasting, for using collaborative filtering techniquesto generate a playlist in real-time based on the requesthistories of the current listening audience. We alsodescribe a concrete implementation of the technique.