Comments on: Google Music China: Unprecedented? http://irgupf.com/2009/09/21/google-music-china-unprecedented/ Information Retrieval Research, Issues, and Discussion Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Don Byrd http://irgupf.com/2009/09/21/google-music-china-unprecedented/comment-page-1/#comment-4872 Don Byrd Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:37:15 +0000 http://irgupf.com/?p=927#comment-4872 Regarding Google Music China, most of the Global Entrepreneur article is typical PR fluff. The people who made those comments probably knew nothing about the history of music IR; more relevant, they almost certainly didn't care! But I sure don't blame Jeremy for being annoyed by Google's ridiculous inconsistency. As for ISMIR, the 10th annual music-IR conference takes place in Japan next month, and the keynote talk is "Ten Years of ISMIR: Reflections on Challenges and Opportunities", by Stephen Downie, Tim Crawford, and myself. Unlike "The History of ISMIR - A Short Happy Tale", which Jeremy's post on this links to, at least mentions Jeremy's involvement -- though I'm not sure it does him justice! Regarding Google Music China, most of the Global Entrepreneur article is typical PR fluff. The people who made those comments probably knew nothing about the history of music IR; more relevant, they almost certainly didn’t care! But I sure don’t blame Jeremy for being annoyed by Google’s ridiculous inconsistency.

As for ISMIR, the 10th annual music-IR conference takes place in Japan next month, and the keynote talk is “Ten Years of ISMIR: Reflections on Challenges and Opportunities”, by Stephen Downie, Tim Crawford, and myself. Unlike “The History of ISMIR – A Short Happy Tale”, which Jeremy’s post on this links to, at least mentions Jeremy’s involvement — though I’m not sure it does him justice!

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