Tag: MUFIN

Mufin Player Pro is a desktop music player that has all of the features you've come to expect and one that you probably haven't; it can map out your entire music collection as a "visual cloud," which lets you slice and dice your tunes in some very interesting ways. At the heart of Mufin is a sophisticated music identification engine that scans all of your tracks and isolates a variety of musical ...

Back in October of 2008, our own Christina Warren snagged some beta invites for Mufin's web-based service for our readers. Now their crew has now released a public beta version of their desktop player for Windows. Once you install the player and show it the way to your stash of audio files, and it begins the (lengthy) process of examining each track's "sound fingerprint." It can take quite a ...

Last month I wrote about mufin.com's music discovery engine. Unlike traditional music discovery services like last.fm or the Genius Mode in iTunes 8, mufin analyzes the actual musical structure of a song. This is great for music lovers because it can really open up more opportunities to discover new bands. Co-developed at the Fraunhofer Institute (the creators of the MP3 format), mufin uses audio ...

As a music lover, one of my favorite innovations of the last five years or so has come in the form of music discovery services. Services like Last.fm, Pandora, Rhapsody and iTunes 8 have made it easy to find artists or songs that are similar to your musical tastes and preferences. The only problem with these services, is that they are based on limited databases (like the iTunes Music Store, for ...