Generating Music Playlists Using Colour

Increasingly, digital media is becoming more accessible with online music stores such as iTunes gaining popularity at an ever-increasing rate. People with large digital collections are often faced with the tedious task of music organisation. Traditionally people have used manual playlists, filters that act on the meta data stored in compressed files such as artist/album and genre classifications to sort their music. Organisation of music is important to aid the task of track selection. The disadvantages of current organisational systems mean that users have to put in a lot of time and effort. The project explores the possibility of associating colour with music. We present a novel approach to music organisation using a colour map generated using AI techniques from colour associations the user makes with their music collection. This enables users to have a personalised view of their system using an easy to associate, easy to recall methodology. Colour Player is a music player built on this idea, and uses several different methods of interacting and filtering their collections to aid in playlist creation.