The document outlines a guide for users to effectively find and evaluate music through a structured approach. It highlights goals such as understanding music quality, cultural context, and playlist creation while integrating user-generated content and ratings. The proposed methods include utilizing platforms like Pandora and Last.fm, alongside personal and environmental parameters for music suggestions.

1. finding
music
logan sayles

2. the search

6. pandora +
close,
but no cigar... last.fm +
ghostly international +

7. lastFM +
“i’ll ask the audience regis.”
ethnography of an expert

8. hypemachine +
twitter +

9. this application will teach its user how to
consistently locate new, and good music,
and have a better understanding of what
makes good tunes good and bad tunes
bad.

10. goals
1. know if music is good

11. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good

12. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music

13. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music
4. compare and contrast good music based on culture and genre surrounding you and it

14. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music
4. compare and contrast good music based on culture and genre surrounding you and it
5. plan and create a playlist based on genre & cultural knowledge of systems of value

15. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music
4. compare and contrast good music based on culture and genre surrounding you and it
5. plan and create a playlist based on genre & cultural knowledge of systems of value
6. select and find appropriate, new, good music

16. goals
1. know if music is good
2. explain what makes good music good
3. show how to search and find good music
4. compare and contrast good music based on culture and genre surrounding you and it
5. plan and create a playlist based on genre & cultural knowledge of systems of value
6. select and find appropriate, new, good music

17. storyboarding

18. music
suggestion
- parameters
-personal
-geographic
-environmental
- user generated ratings/tags system
-song suggestion/music dna
based on user generated “survey”
cloud,

19. a reader/feed
- streams r.s.s. feeds
- favorites
-suggestions
- allows for browsing and web streaming
- user generated ratings/tags system