Fly over your tunes! Mapping software for your music.

Tracy Staedter, Discovery News

Researchers have now developed a program that automatically organizes a collection of digital music files into a virtual landscape. Instead of digging deeper and deeper through categories and subcategories of songs, you fly over an archipelago of sound-specific islands.

"It could work like a flight simulator," said Peter Knees, a PhD candidate and project assistant at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. "You see landmarks that relate to style. If you dive deeper, it will reveal artists, and then deeper to see individual songs."

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