Infinite Jukebox · 6:41pm Apr 20th, 2014
If you haven't heard about the Infinite Jukebox yet, you're going to be thanking me for telling you about it. Basically, it's a webtoy that uses musical analyses software and fancy-shmancy algorithms and to make extended versions of any song that will literally go on forever if you allow it to. This is totally fun and awesome, and companies everywhere should use it to replace the hold music for their tech support with stuff that doesn't suck. Seriously, I spent twenty minutes listening to the "Na, Na Na, Nana Na Na" section of "Hey Jude." (Press space start/stop, press "H" if you want the program to stop looping and move on to the end, and don't open any new tabs, or it'll stop automatically.)
Naturally, folks have already uploaded some songs from the show (though the ones I've listened to so far don't seem to loop all that smoothly).
Ooo definately interesting. If I remember to check it out when I have a computer I sure would.
Neeeeaaaaat.
It is a neat idea, but I am not so sure that the 'musical analyses software and fancy-shmancy algorithms' do such a good job of seamless looping.
I have to upload Katamari Damacy...
Uploaded a song, it didn't loop, and instead ended up shorter than the original version
I don't think it does a good job of patching the song together...
Interesting. I suspect how well this approach will work depends heavily on the song itself. I tried "Let It Go" by Idina Menzel and it absolutely butchers it. On the other hand, it works very well with music that's already meant to be played in a loop, such as "Still More Fighting by Nobou Uematsu". I suspect that a lot of background music without vocals would work reasonable well, which is great because I usually use background music when I just want something repetitive to cut background nose.
If you put the tab it its own window, however, it will keep playing even if minimised. Something to do with chrome giving javascript low priority in hidden tabs. See their FAQ.
2028330 - Well, sometimes you have to hit the "Tune" button and fiddle around with it a bit to make it work well.
2028434 - I've noticed that it seems to work best with electronic and hip-hop music, which are genres that use samples and loops heavily.
This is fantastic.
I listened to "Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows" with this. It went exactly like you'd expect it to.
Well there goes my day's productivity. Straight down the loo...
Then SIG got an idea! An awful idea! SIG got a wonderful, awful idea!
I am going to loop the choruses from the following songs and see how long it takes the others to notice something is amiss (or until I am threatened with physical violence, whichever comes first):
Steam - Hey, Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It)
The earworms shall play FOREVER!
*MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!*
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Post-mortem:
Kiss Him Goodbye.
This looped as well as you would think. However, it only looped the "nananana nananana hey hey hey goodbye!" part. There was not much variety and it got pretty bland rather quickly.
That's The Way
This one was slightly better than Goodbye. It got dull fairly quickly since it only cycled between the "woooOOoooOOOoooOOOooo" background vocals and the "that's the way uh huh uh huh I like it uh huh uh huh" parts.
Fly Away
This one was excellent! The jumps and skips worked perfectly (it was amusing to watch the little green bar hop back and forth seamlessly across half the song with nary a dropped beat), Lenny puts enough variety between each block of "I want to get away" to keep the song from going stale, there are a large number of "long jumps" that loop nearly half the song, and there is a serendipitous jump at the end that loops back to the beginning, giving coverage over pretty much the entire song. I had the song playing for over an hour before one of Significant Other's friends twigged what was going on.
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This one does loop very well, I will give it that. Unfortunately it has the same problem as Kiss Him Goodbye does and loops the same 6 words over and over (and over and over and over...)
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Here are two I uploaded just for you Kwaker. Now you can have all Philip Glass, all the time!
Two Pages
Music in Fifths
2029282 - As I've said in a previous comment, fiddling with the "Tune" button greatly increases or decreases the effectiveness of the looping algorithms. I actually had to adjust "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" to keep it from looping the verses so it would actually get to the outro. Thanks for the Glass, BTW.
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For some reason I completely missed that. Reading comprehension fail for SIG here... The "Tune" options certainly make a big difference.
Pretty cool. Wonder how well it works with the Polka song...
Batman!
For all two of you who liked EQG: The EQG Opening