iPhone – Moodagent review
13. Feb, 2010 
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Moodagent Info
Official Website: http://www.moodagent.com/
Price: free
Category: Music
Review
To quote Moodagent’s website “Let Moodagent create exciting new combinations from your entire collection, and discover music you forgot you had. You’ve never heard your music like this.”. Moodagent is a free application for your iPhone or iPod touch that enables you to experience and rediscover music on your device by the way you are currently feeling.
Upon installing the application onto your device you will need an internet connection as your device needs to be able to connect to Moodagent’s servers so the app can ‘profile’ the music you have on your device, it is this profiling that enables the app to be smart about the way it recommends music for you to listen to depending on your mood.
Inorder to tell the app what your mood is currently like, the app gives you 5 sliders which represent: Sensual, Tender, Joy, Aggressive and Tempo. You can slide these sliders at your will and upon sliding them the app will then generate a new playlist based on your currently selected mood. You can however also select a ’seed’ song, this will set the sliders to that of the song you chose and generate a playlist which matches the mood of the song you just picked.
The initial ‘profiling’ of my library (2100 songs) took about 5mins maybe less over my 3g connection which i thought was pretty good, though i can imagine if you have a lot of songs you may want to do this initial step over WiFi for speed. They claim to have over 8million tracks profiled on their servers, if it can’t profile any of your songs it tells you after the initial sync (201 out of my 2100 tracks, though i do have a lot of unreleased rehearsal’s for a particular band).
The playlist generation from the slider settings or from a seed song seem to work really well, every time i tried it i got very similar songs in terms of tempo, sentiment and style which i was really pleased about. Obviously however the app can only work as well as your library allows it, so i guess the bigger the library it can work with than the better results you will get.
The application over the last few days i have used it has enabled me to rediscover some long forgotten tracks (and album tracks i had never listened to) which is exactly what its supposed to. My only criticisms of the app however is that whilst it has in app controls for music playback, i can’t seem to find a slider for volume? It’s not too much of a problem as you can use the hardware buttons on the side of the device to alter the sound, however it would have been nice to include a software slider (it may well be there but i can’t find it! let me know if it is).
For a completely free app i would have no hesitation in recommending this app and have enjoyed using the app, hit up the link below to download the app from the iTunes appstore.
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