Research Seminars

MixCloud goals in the light of the TSB collaborative project with C4DM on Enhancing the Personalisation and Discovery of Radio Content

Nikhil Shah
MixCloud Ltd

Monday 19 January 2009, 16:15, Room 105

Abstract

MixCloud is in the online music and radio space. Our objective is to "re-think radio" by developing an innovative distribution channel for user generated radio. This involves:

- New processes (enhancing the distribution and discovery of online radio content)
- New products (what we describe as "cloud radio", built on the philosophy of cloud computing)
- New content (bringing together and legitimising content that is currently fragmented and distributed through unofficial/illegal channels)
- New services (an innovative, ad-funded, radio-on-demand streaming service)
- New experiences (tapping into the collective wisdom of experts)

MixCloud solution is designed to help radio content creators/owners enhance the online exploitation of their content by applying key trends such as social sharing, widgetised distribution, recommendation and personalisation.

MixCloud, has been awarded £50k towards an overall project budget of £100k by the Technology Strategy Board's Creative Industries Fast Track Competition, to develop, in collaboration with C4DM, an innovative distribution channel for user generated radio. The project will use C4DM's expertise in semantic music retrieval, semantic music similarity and audio summarisation. C4DM will receive £25k of the award.

In particular, the objectives of this research project are to develop new tools and technologies for the personalisation and discovery of radio content, enabling listeners to discover relevant and appealing content more easily and effectively.