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They can be useful though, like once in a blue moon on a white boarding session with non-technical users, explaining a bug or something like that



Yes, this is a great use. I wonder if there's any tool to automate this.

I just gave Modern Love a listen, thanks, this was great.


Paul Lamere from The Echo Nest made an awesome music analysis demo called "The Infinite Jukebox" (for when your favorite song just isn't long enough), for automatically finding loopable points in music. And it can use that analysis to stretch a song out to any duration you want, by seamlessly skipping and looping parts of it to shorten or stretch it. It's interactive, so you can point and click on the arcs to control how it loops at any point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Echo_Nest

http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/

Infinite Jukebox

For when your favorite song just isn't long enough

This web app lets you upload a favorite MP3 and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song. Infinite Jukebox uses the Echo Nest analyzer to break the song into beats. It plays the song beat by beat, but at every beat there's a chance that it will jump to a different part of song that happens to sound very similar to the current beat. For beat similarity the uses pitch, timbre, loudness, duration and the position of the beat within a bar. There's a nifty visualization that shows all the possible transitions that can occur at any beat. Built at Music Hack Day Boston 2012.

Billie Jean Forever:

http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/?trid=TRSFLTX13...

Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) by Scatman John:

http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/?trid=TRXKEZN13...

Lots more cool Echo Nest demos:

http://static.echonest.com/labs/

http://static.echonest.com/labs/demo.html


Wow, I didn't know about this. Thank you, this is great !!

[0] This is a slightly related vaporware loop which, I don't know, I find it mesmerizing.

[0]: https://invidio.us/watch?v=-RFunvF0mDw


You can use them for just about anything once you get used to the idea of dynamic nesting. I'm particularly fond of this implementation:

http://www.dsprobotics.com/applications.html




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