From the FAQ:
- What is this? – For when your favorite song just isn’t long enough. This web app lets you upload a favorite MP3 and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song. It does what Infinite Gangnam Style did but for any song.
- It never stops? – That’s right. It will play forever.
- How does it work? – We use the Echo Nest analyzer to break the song into beats. We play the song beat by beat, but at every beat there’s a chance that we will jump to a different part of song that happens to sound very similar to the current beat. For beat similarity we look at pitch, timbre, loudness, duration and the position of the beat within a bar. There’s a nifty visualization that shows all the possible transitions that can occur at any beat.
- Are there any ways to control the song? Yes – here are some keys:
- [space] – Start and stop playing the song
- [left arrow] – Decrement the current play velocity by one
- [right arrow] – Increment the current play velocity by one
- [Down arrow] – Sets the current play velocity to zero
- [control] – freeze on the current beat
- [shift] – bounce between the current beat and all of the similar sounding beats. These are the
branch points.- ‘h’ – Bring it on home – toggles infinite mode off/on.
- What do the colored blocks represent? Each block represents a beat in the song. The colors are related
to the timbre of the music for that beat.…
That should be enough to get you started. 😉
There’s a post on the Infinite Jukebox at Music Machinery.
I have mixed feelings about the Infinite Jukebox. While I appreciate its artistry and ability to make the familiar into something familiar, yet different, I also have a deep appreciation for the familiar.
Compare: While My Guitar Gently Weeps by the Beatles to Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane at the Infinite Jukebox.
The heart rending vocals of Grace Slick, on infinite play, become overwhelming.
I need to upload Lather. Strictly for others. I’m quite happy with the original.
Enjoy!