Imagine the empeg keeping track of skips and replays as well as just plays. Then it would be able to infer, in a general sense, which songs you prefer in your collection. Without you having to intervene and vote, or otherwise do anything special.


The mp3 streamer I hacked up for use at my house long before I had or heard of an empeg did just this. I never considered extending it for "find music like this" but instead it was intended to provide a weighted random playlist system, where based on "who" was listening and what we knew of their listening patterns, we'd weight the random selection of tracks according to their preferences. So, for instance, the system would be less like to play any Alanis while I was listening than the listening preferences of say my wife would otherwise cause it to.

Like so many worthwhile projects it died due to "no time".