So this app will NEVER EVER show up in the App Store. So it will only EVER WORK with jail broken ipods which will start to go away more and more when july 11th hits.

Great research there VCs.

As far as Jailbreaking goes, I wasn’t going to do it until I found this app. I have been patiently waiting for Apple to release its SDK, but when I found out that it’s is so restricted that something as useful, and simple, as Instinctiv won’t work I changed my mind.

Restricting their platform was the mistake Apple made back in the 90’s when Windows was killing them. They are making the same mistake again, but we are lucky enough to have smart people that have provided dead simple tools for us to use our device as we please. Even more impressive, we have companies and VCs that are brave enough to take a stand and provide the highest level of software despite Apples restrictions. I’m surprised that an audience as progressive as Techcrunch’s wouldn’t be more supportive.

it reminds me of ray kurzweil claiming to have algorithms write poems. well somewhat similar.

i cant seem to fathom how stupid some VCs can get sometimes. really. moods? wow… how in the world do you know that i am dancing or jumping about while listening to a song… or just on the phone or composing a business plan?

sheeesh.

JT
http://www.FireMe.to/udi

I just did a quick web search and found this:
http://www.freepatentsonline.c.....88727.html

Looks like there’s already a patent filed for music selection based on skipping.

This is the advantage of having a music recommender system that is based on the content of the music itself (digital file), since if you forgot the name of the song, at least you can try and hum the song (the bit that you remember) into a recorded device and then submit that sample as a query so that the system will try and match/retrieve songs with similar tunes (and hopefully your queried target song is on that short list). These services are already available commercially and the technology will get better & better over time.

Hi everyone,

This is one of the developers behind the Instinctiv Shuffle. Thanks a lot for all of the feedback and interest! We wanted to clarify some questions and comments that have been posted just to explain how our app works and what it means for the future of iPhone/Touch apps in our minds.

Our technology may have some “magical” qualities from the outside looking in, but our approach is relatively straight forward. When you download our app, we group all of the music in your library in different groups (or moods, or whatever else you want to call it) based on a combination of machine learning from our millions+ song database, and also the aggregate of all of the anonymous user data we’ve collected. The result is that every time you skip a song we “narrow the playing field” until we know exactly which group of songs you want to listen to. Of course this changes with time and based on skips but at a high level that’s how our technology works.

The second major component is that we’ve made our app to be flexible enough to account for user eccentricities. That means based on YOUR particular skipping behavior, the localized Instinctiv Shuffle on your iPhone/Touch will modify its groupings to make sure it’s just right for you.

So the bottom line is that the longer you use Instinctiv Shuffle the more accurate it becomes to understand your musical tastes and become even more in tune with your “moods”.

It’s pretty “instinctiv” really. J

To the other questions on the usefulness of the app and its inclusion in the Apple SDK, this was actually a major decision for us. We fully intended to be a part of the App Store months ago, but when we got down to the nitty gritty, we realized that the Instinctiv Shuffle would have to be significantly limited to go down to the SDK level. As perfectionists, we really couldn’t stand the idea of taking out both the intuitive UI and blunting the core functionality, so we went against the grain and made a jail-broken app.

I think as people use our Instinctiv Shuffle and other jail broken apps that are coming out and FEEL the difference between the power/complexity/awesomeness of native jailbroken apps vs. SDK apps, we hope Apple may ease some of the restrictions. The fact is, more than 1.5 million people (this was way back in February) already had jail broken their iPhones and many more people have done so for the Touch. So we know there’s a market for this. Judging by the overwhelming response we’ve gotten in the last 12 hours, there is certainly pent up demand. If not with Apple, then perhaps on some other platform.

Thanks for listening,

-Peter