What music you choose to listen to often has to do with how you're feeling. What if instead of style or genre, your music collection was organized by mood?
That's the idea behind MoodGrid, a new product from Garmin and Gracenote, which showed off their team effort this week in Las Vegas at the CES. Gracenote’s MoodGrid can be found in Garmin’s “Everest” navigation and infotainment system and provides a different way to choose music by visually describing its emotional attributes.
The music in the driver’s own collection is organized by mood and shown on a graph, making it a one-touch action to start playing music that's “calm,” “dark,” “energetic,” “positive” and other descriptors the driver may manually enter.
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The two companies hope this will make it simpler and safer for drivers to listen to music, since they won’t have to scroll through songs to find what they want. Mapping the range of human emotions could be tricky, and trying to find a song that conveys one specific emotion even trickier. Makes you wonder how many moods the system can recognize. Will it play something from My Chemical Romance if you're feeling some leftover teenage angst? Could it recognize a romantic setting and bust out some Barry White to seal the deal? Wonder if you could create a song map for “awkward ... "
Via: Virtual Press
Credit: Gracenote
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Tags: CES 2012, Driving and Safety, Gadgets, Music
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