MusicBox: Mapping and visualizing music collections

Watch in HD! Source: thesis.flyingpudding.com For her thesis at MIT, a student developed some interesting software for visualizing music collections: MusicBox. —————————————- REPLY FROM ANITA, on her blog (12/17/2008): ** Is the software available? ** No. I know that sucks, but there are a few reasons it isn’t available. The biggest ones are: this is just a prototype (not necessarily robust), MIT has rights to it, and I don’t have the time it takes to bring this up to scratch right now. ** What are my plans for MusicBox? (open-source, even?) ** I’m not sure right now. It may someday be an app I could share with all of you, but unfortunately that won’t happen anytime in the next few months. I would try to open-source the code, but there are more licensing restrictions I need to deal with first. 😛 ** Will this be an iPhone app? ** Right now third-party apps can’t access the music on an iPhone. This presents a huge barrier to making an app like MusicBox for the iPhone. ** What’s the song in the top-right corner? ** It is a New Age track by Christopher of the Wolves, called Didgeridoo. And it is, well, a didgeridoo track. I thought this was available on Magnatune, but I don’t see it there anymore. I think it is Track 8 on this album. ** MusicBox’s application for dealing with more general data, not just music ** The interface in MusicBox could definitely be applied to other data sets; there’s no reason it has to be music. Anything for which we can …