Poolcasting: an intelligent technique to customise musical programmes for their audience

Poolcasting es una tecnica inteligente para crear secuencias musicales personalizadas para un grupo de oyentes, Poolcasting actua como un disc jockey, determinando y reproduciendo canciones que satisfacen su audiencia. Satisfacer a todo el publico no es un trabajo sencillo, especialmente cuando los miembros del grupo tienen preferencias heterogeneas y pueden entrar o salir del grupo en cualquier momento. La propuesta de poolcasting consiste en seleccionar las canciones iterativamente, en tiempo real, favorecendo esos miembros que son menos satisfechos por las ultimas canciones reproducidas. Ademas, poolcasting asegura que la secuencia reproducida no repite las mismas canciones o los mismos artistas a corto plazo y que dos canciones consecutivas suenen bien una despues de la otra, en sentido musical. Los buenos disc jockeys conocen por experiencia cuales canciones suenan bien en secuencia; poolcasting obtiene este conocimiento de la analisis de playlists compartidas en la Web. Cuanto mas dos canciones ocorren cerca en estas playlists, cuanto mas poolcasting considera dos canciones como asociadas, de acuerdo con las experiencias humanas expresadas a traves de las playlists. Combinando este conocimiento y los perfiles musicals de los oyentes, poolcasting autonomamente genera secuencias que son variadas, musicalmente fluidas y correctamente adaptadas para una audiencia particular. Una aplicacion natural para poolcasting es automatizar programas de radio. Muchas radios online emiten en cada canal una secuencia casual de canciones que no se ve afectadas por quien esta escuchando. Aplicar poolcasting puede mejorar los programas de radio, reproduciendo en cada canal una secuencia musical variada, fluida y personalizada para un grupo. La integracion de poolcasting en una radio Web ha resultado en un nuevo sistema llamado Poolcasting Web radio. Decenas de personas se han conectado a esta radio online durante un ano ofreciendo evaluacion de primera mano de sus caracteristicas sociales. Un conjunto de experimentos ha sido ejecutado para evaluar como el tamano del grupo y su homogeneidad musical afectan la performance de la tecnica de poolcasting.

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