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Do you remember the Infinite Jukebox? It’s alive again as the “Eternal” Jukebox!

Digital elaboration of music is fun, a wonderful way to really hunker down and stare at its structure. This kind of project – based on really crunchy analysis of music done by The Echo Nest – is why I refuse to set up a hierarchy of Good, Virtuous Human Music Commentary and Bad, Deleterious Algorithmic Curation. There is stuff going on in music recommendation – Every Noise, anyone? – that is good and a wonderful complement to caring about music’s social context.

I have some thoughts about discoverability I need to write up, prompted by Robin Sloan, but for today, pick out a few of your favorite songs and see how their structure can add loops.