It worked really well. Here’s how I set the sliders: Sensual at 75%, Tender at 90%, Joy at 25%, Aggression and Tempo all the way down.

To create a profile we analyze the digital signal of a song, similar to Pandora, we then take a segment of the song, amplify it and run it through a series of artificial intelligence expert systems, constantly trained by the Syntonetic musicologists. We are able to create a song profile which measures the degree of each of the song’s characteristics, including moods, genres, sub-genres, styles, tempo/beat, vocals, instrumentation and production features. Even Beethoven may have some degree of “rock”. Once created these profiles are stored on our servers and accessed via the internet.

This brings us to moodagent on the iPhone. When moodagent is first installed it syncs the songs in your catalog with our 7 million profiles. It then takes the high definition profiles that correspond with your library and stores them in a small encrypted file on your iPhone. The app then interrogates this local file every time you move a slider or pick a song to seed your playlist. We have 5 sliders to help you select the characteristics of your playlist. These 5 sliders represent Sensuality, Tenderness, Happiness, Aggression and Tempo.

When using the sliders all positions are taken equally into account, setting one slider to a low value does not indicate a low priority, it is just as important as turning another slider up. Thus turning four sliders down will actually influence the result more than turning a single slider up. The result you get is always the closest match to the combination of all five slider values, in any given collection. After using the sliders you can always click the Moodagent icon next to the seed to get the actual values of the seed track.

My preference is not to use the sliders to start, but to pick a song from my collection that sets a particular mood then let moodagent build the playlist for me based on that song. If you select a song as the “seed” track it will look at all of the characteristics of the song to build the playlist, not just the mood profiles.

Several people have noticed that some of their tracks have no matching profile and are not synced. To find out how many, just click on the i at the bottom left hand corner of the page. To get the most out of moodagent you can use the optional desktop moodagent profiler. It will look at your iTunes collection on the desktop and create profiles for any songs where the profile doesn’t exist. This way, when you sync again you’ll get all of your non-protected tracks and have a better experience creating playlists.

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I’m really looking forward to using it, especially for social networking with the facebook app and gravity for twitter. I also plan to use it for email, youtube, maps, taking photos and listening to my music collection. I’ve setup Nokia multimedia transfer for mac so that I can easily transfer my entire iTunes music library to the N97 via bluetooth.

Tropical Malaysia routinely sees thunderstorms at this time of year, especially towards the end of the day. Yet the race organizers decided to start the race two hours later at 5pm instead of the regular 3pm start, so that European TV audiences could see the race at a better time and higher revenues could be demanded from advertisers.

Conditions would have had to be perfect to finish the race before sunset. With the onset of rain halfway through the race and the delay it caused, there was never a chance to finish. By the time the rain had reduced in intensity it was getting too dark to restart. Surely, Formula 1 management must have foreseen this situation. It did rain every day this week. The biggest losers were the TV audiences who didn’t get to see a full race.

I am hoping we have a really interesting and competitive season with a new style of race.

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