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Why Spotify Should Care About Local Music in the Coming Age of Generative Music

Summary: With the rise of generative music, some listeners will increasingly value “authentic” music experiences with human artists who perform[…]

In our research on long-tail music recommendation, we have come across three distinct forms of popularity bias: In this post,[…]

I asked ChatGPT to “Write a short academic paper about local music recommendation.” Here is what it put out: Local[…]

Almost all of my research has focused on technical topics such as digital signal processing, machine learning, and recommendation algorithms.[…]

One of the emerging topics in machine learning research is “fairness” and “bias” in recommendation algorithms. For example, when a[…]

(tl;dr – Porchfest.live – your guide to an afternoon of local music.) A Porchfest is a music event where local[…]

Back in the Spring of 2018 when I first started working on Localify.org with JimiLab Alum John Burger, I was[…]

Localify.org has been designed to embrace the concept of humane technology. We do have an agenda but it is not[…]

Update on Oct 6, 2021 – Caroline Grass from the Ithacan wrote an article about this work entitled “Q&A: IC[…]

Over the last few months, Localify team members have been hard at work to make the app better, smoother, and[…]