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I am currently working on a new software project, code named “Cleo”.

It’s a music library manager, that uses genre tags to organize and search the music on your computer.

I began working on the project due to my disappointment of existing music library management software, most of which (if not all) use the “Category” ID3 tag to mark an mp3 genre as Ambient, Electro, Indie, Metal or any other genre.
But none support an easy way to tag an artist with several genres such as Alternative Indie Rock, or Progressive Nu Metal, Female Singer-Songwriter, or Electronic Goa Psy Trance and etc.

I wanted to be able to mark an Artist (not a single mp3) with several tags and search for all artists on my computer that have tagA and tagB without tagC and so on.

I also wanted this to be done automatically, since I don’t know how to tag my artists accurately.

My idea came together after I saw the rich database of artists and their tags available on last.fm, artists and tags that are defined by millions of users (and not by a finite group of musical experts) and thus are extremely accurate and spread over a wide range of musical genres.

Put it all together and you get what my program is all about - it scans the music files on your computer and tags every artist using the last.fm web API, creating a rich mapping of the artists on your computer, allowing you to discover what genres you really like, find similar new artists, and most important listen to a specific taste of music on your computer using these tags without the need to divide artist into folders (an impossible feat when artists share several genres) or the need to know how to classify an artist.

You can simply choose a song or an artist and ask the program to play similar music. Just like Pandora.com used to do but right from your computer, without being limited to an online music library or legal restrictions.

The program is still in early stages of development, so it won’t be released publicly until it reaches at least a reasonable Beta stage.

If you wish to test the current Alpha version just mail me.