Timboodle is a musical search engine with which you can find music on 'state of mind' or based on scraps of lyrics. For example you can search for 40 emotions, like melancholy, happy, subdued or excited. Beside that you can refine search queries by giving additional criteria, like genre, timbre, tempo, meter and kind of vocals.

Timboodle’s database contains music from over a hundred genres. To help with this 23 music experts have been asked to indicate which musical pieces are worth it in their genre. It was necessary to have people with enough musical knowledge aboard to give the music the right qualifications. That’s why they asked 19 students of the faculty of Musical Sciences and the Conservatory in Amsterdam for help.

Future Vision by Erwin Van Lun on this article

In a next step, Timboodle will measure your emotions. For example because webcams (which are available everywhere anyway) or microphones process image and sound with which you emotions can be guessed. And then Timboodle can jump in carefully with music tailored to that. This is how Timboodle can grow into a valuable brand in audio experiences. This is a start.

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