Abstract:
A body for a blow-molded waste cart and a waste cart having a blow-molded hollow body having a rear wall, a floor, the body and floor form a waste receptacle and a pair of axle straps integrally formed with the body. The axle straps each include a penetration with a strap bearing surface formed in penetration of the axle strap. The cart body may also include a longitudinal bearing surface with the strap bearing surface being aligned with the longitudinal bearing surface. The strap bearing surface is preferably cylindrical. A waste cart may be formed by adding an axle mounted to the body by the axle straps and wheels mounted to either end of the axle. A method of forming the carte body is also disclosed in which a pair of opposed pins are slid into the axle straps to form the axle strap bearing surfaces.
Abstract:
Techniques for generating a playlist include: receiving acoustic information, obtaining seed information based on the acoustic information, identifying audio tracks in an audio library based on the seed information, and generating the playlist using at least some of the identified audio tracks.
Abstract:
A system and methods for automatically detecting temporal music trends by observing music consumption by users of online services, for example, social networks, and user sharing habits. In some embodiments, the system and methods gather music consumption patterns (e.g., downloading, listening, sharing or the like) of users, including music identifiers for a track, album, or playlist in a user's music library and time stamps that indicate consumption times corresponding to the music identifiers. A temporal trends detection engine determines music of interest to users by analyzing music consumption patterns of users, user interests and tastes in music, and social affinity between users. A recommendations engine automatically generates and transmits recommendations of music determined by the temporal trends detection engine to be of interest to users.
Abstract:
Sound representations and winner-take-all codes of auditory spectra are used in the identification of audio content. A transformation component converts a set of sound frames from audio content into a set of spectral slices. A spectral encoder component encodes the spectral slices of auditory spectra into winner-take-all codes with a winner-take-all hash function. An identification component identifies which spectral dimension of a subset of spectral dimensions within a spectral slice has highest spectral value according to the winner-take-all codes. Reference audio content is determined to be similar or matching to the audio content based on the winner-take-all codes.
Abstract:
Described herein are methods and system for analyzing music audio. An example method includes obtaining a music audio track, calculating acoustic features of the music audio track, calculating geometric features of the music audio track in view of the acoustic features, and determining a mood of the music audio track in view of the geometric features.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for generating playlists of media items with audio data are disclosed. Based on two received feature sets, media items corresponding to each feature set are identified. Transition characteristics are also received. Based on the identified media items and transition characteristics, a dynamic playlist is generated that transitions from media items having characteristics of the first feature set to media items having characteristics of the second feature set. Each time the playlist is generated, it may include a different set of media items.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for generating playlists of media items with audio data are disclosed. Based on two received feature sets, media items corresponding to each feature set are identified. Transition characteristics are also received. Based on the identified media items and transition characteristics, a dynamic playlist is generated that transitions from media items having characteristics of the first feature set to media items having characteristics of the second feature set. Each time the playlist is generated, it may include a different set of media items.
Abstract:
Meaningful words or phrases may be extracted from the information and used as tags. Weights may be determined for the tags, and tag clouds may be generated for the items. The tag clouds may be stored to a data store. Information specifying a tag cloud may be received. Recommended items for which the tag clouds most closely match the specified tag cloud may be identified. Standard vector space distance calculations, for example the cosine distance between the tag clouds, may be used to determine cloud similarity. The results may be filtered to optimize relevance, novelty and familiarity in accordance with preferences of the user. The recommended items may be displayed to a user interface. Users may interact with the user interface to steer the recommendations towards more relevant content.
Abstract:
A body for a blow-molded waste cart and a waste cart having a blow-molded hollow body with a rear wall and a handle keyway formed in the rear wall and a handle installed in the keyway. The body may include a detent formed in the rear wall of the body that engages a projection formed on the handle assembly. The keyway may be formed of a number of spaced trapezoidal slots with undercut sections that mate with a plurality of spaced trapezoidal keys on the handle. The waste cart, as well as the handle assembly may be blow-molded.
Abstract:
Generating a playlist may include designating a seed track in an audio library; identifying audio tracks in the audio library having constructs that are within a range of a corresponding construct of the seed track, where the constructs for the audio tracks are derived from frequency representations of the audio tracks, and the corresponding construct for the seed track is derived from a frequency representation of the seed track; and generating the playlist using at least some of the audio tracks that were identified.