A MUSIC SEARCH ENGINE TO MEET THE EXPECTATIONS OF CASUAL MUSIC LISTENERS AS WELL AS MUSICIANS
Today, music is used everywhere as a commodity, by everyone. The jogger wants a playlist to run to, the student wants several when organizing a dinner party and managers use music to socialize their white collar workers in the context of multi-tasking projects. Yet other music listeners, less casual, want to develop a deeper passion for music, without necessarily having any knowledge on the subject. No matter: rather than being innate, knowledge acquisition is a process. And a process that is individual: there is no unique description of how music listeners hear. How can listeners, instead of listening to a restricted body of music compositions, adopt an approach that is both transhistorical and transcultural? In fact, conceiving music in terms of universals is not obvious. Yet a new music theory now explains the true nature of music, based on all-encompassing music concepts. In combination with the YMusic search engine, it lets music listeners explore the main facets of music through several elementary music features.
As a search engine, YMusic is simply relevant. Based on musical criteria, it offers functionalities that match the best tracks according to what music listeners require. Search after search, listeners can extend their musical mind, whether they are casual listeners that come for their leisure and would like to invest some leisure time in music listening or music researchers. There are three types of leisure: serious, casual and project-based. In the first category, one can find volunteers and hobbyists, in the third one too. Casual music listeners enter in the second one. Casual leisure being linked to a pleasurable activity that is intrinsically and immediately rewarding, it requires no training to enjoy it. Now how is YMusic different from a music streaming service? Online streaming services provide music listeners: listeners use some words to introduce their queries. YMusic, as a search engine, helps listeners to take control of their searches: using its features, listeners can explore various facets of the musical content itself, rather than being influenced by cultural criteria introduced by words.
So music can be directly related to the ear of the listener, without any advice coming from a third-party. Like language, music has a syntax, it presents temporal and sounding elements that YMusic’s features analyze in order to return a result to the searcher. Music is, in some ways, an act of contemplation, and listening after listening, the listener can identify specific musical patterns and get an understanding of what music is and receive more results they will potentially like. Browsing YMusic’s database, which currently includes thousands of titles, they progressively transform musical information into knowledge: knowledge about music itself and knowledge about themselves, whatever their musical and personal background is. Sometimes, the distinction between amateurs and professionals is not always relevant. Everyone may find benefit in YMusic, professionals, and amateur musicians, as well as casual music listeners, and construct their musical knowledge in its existential, practical and theoretical aspects.