Sonic Breakdown

Just ran across this new company that uses Wikipedia listings to drive music recommendations.  Gotta check it out some more. "Q: How many artists and albums do you have in your database? bA: We had 75,786 artists and 394,399 albums last time we updated this page."  I am always reluctant to download these kinds of clients but I may try this one ;).  The company name is probably not a very good choice, though, imho...  Brad Hill reviewed the service here:
"All in all, this is the best massaging of my music collection I’ve seen in quite some time. Now, if SonicBreakdown were to create a stand-alone music player with this explosion of information built into it—that would be something to really shout about..." he says

Comments

[Brett Crossley]

Hi Gerd,
Thanks for looking at what we do. We are more about current music information, Wikipedia is part of it, as is concerts, music on TV, etc. Our company is Tusonic, sonicbreakdown.com is a live demo of our technology. We license the technology behind it to music services.

[Jason Schwartz]

In regards to Brad Hills comment on a media played that includes this information: Sonicbreakdown seems to mostly be powered by the Predixis engine for music recommendations. This is embedded in the new version of Winamp.

www.predixis.biz
www.winamp.com