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But the MoodLogic people seem to have been missing in action for a long time.

I noticed that Sony are preloading MoodLogic on Vaio laptops now. At least, they did on mine.


Allow me to reiterate. MoodLogic is dead dead dead.
It was/is a great concept. And their marketing people have apparently been doing a reasonable job of getting their product tied into various places.
But on the technical/implementation end it's an utter disaster with regard to their online database updates.

If you check out the forums at their website you will discover the following:
  1. "Big News" is promised in Jan. 2005. I assume this will be the selling/licensing of their assets to some big player, so the owners can cash out -- and maybe, just maybe, the users can get something back for their annual fees.
  2. The company has changed from "Inc." to "Ltd." and moved from San Francisco to Switzerland. I assume this is because the 1 or 2 guys that are all that remain of the company are from there. It also has the nice effect of getting them out of reach of a potential massive class action lawsuit for defrauding the people who bought their subscription service and got nothing in return.
  3. They haven't updated their database from user submissions in a couple of years.
  4. They don't read the forums on their own website, where an 18 month stream of criticisms and pleas for "please tell us what's happening with this product" have been completely ignored.
  5. However, you can still access the existing database.
  6. And of course, the part of their site which accepts your money is still working (most of the time).


But despite all this, you can still get some reasonable value out of this product. It can classify 20-40% of your mainstream albums which are more than 3 years old. For everything else, you can do your own categorization. Of course, your efforts won't be available to anyone else, because as mentioned above, that part isn't working any more.

But, terrible as it is, I haven't seen anyone else step up and provide the similar set of features that I want.
If anyone can point me to such an alternative, I would appreciate it.


Also, if anyone else here is a MoodLogic user disappointed that the promised database updates turned out to be vaporware, let me know.

Depending on what happens with the "January announcement" I may potentially consider legal action. If so, I'll be looking for some other people to form the initial class with me. I never bothered before because I assumed it was basically two guys in a dorm room struggling to keep their dream alive. But if their blatant fraud has led them to a multi-million dollar payday from some content or service provider, then you better believe I want my money back and substantial criminal penalties applied to the perpetrators.