Philophonist is a personal music experience management system – the first known implementation of the Personal Music Experience Management System (PMEMS) concept.
Philophonist enables users to capture, structure, and utilize their subjective musical experiences for organizing a music collection, finding subjectively similar musical works within the managed collection based on user-defined subjective characteristics, and creating personalized listening scenarios.
Philophonist combines :
• Personal Music Experience Management
Recording emotions, impressions, associations, memories, listening context, and other subjective characteristics of musical works, and subsequently using this information to organize music collections and generate personalized listening scenarios.
• Music Collection Management
Adding links to local audio files and links to videos hosted on YouTube to the collection, creating and maintaining music collections, managing links to music content, and storing user-created selections.
• Subjective Description of Musical Works
Using user ratings, subjective categories, and notes to search for subjectively similar musical works within the managed collection, filter the collection, and create individualized listening scenarios.
Examples of Interpreting Musical Works Based on Combinations of Evaluative Categories:
Category
Associations / Mood
Character of Perception
Happy + Light + Fast
Fun Euphoria Playfulness Carefreeness Inspiration
Effect: A sense of movement, freedom, and open, sociable energy. Context: Active recreation, travel, holidays, friendly gatherings, and maintaining high spirits.
Happy + Heavy + Fast
Power Energy Celebration Exhilaration Triumph Epic grandeur
Effect: Heroic uplift, dominant force, and the experience of victory through overcoming. Context: Intense workouts, competitions, seeking motivation, and overcoming obstacles.
Effect: Inner light, a sense of safety, coziness, and emotional comfort. Context: Relaxation, reading, leisurely walks, romantic evenings, and solitude.
Effect: Majestic tranquility, monumentality, calm confidence, and stability. Context: Significant events, solemn ceremonies, and deep reflection on life achievements.
Effect: Light anxiety, a feeling of emotional fragility, and fleeting moments. Context: Nostalgia, anticipation of change, and living through difficult but aesthetically rich moments.
Effect: Acute inner conflict, rage, a sense of struggle or loss of control. Context: Emotional release, sublimation of strong experiences, overcoming stress and crises.
Effect: Thoughtful contemplation, a "quiet personal emotion," and a sense of distance from the outside world. Context: Self-reflection, memories, calm processing of events, and psychological recovery.
Sad + Heavy + Slow
Fatality Drama Tragedy Gloom Hopelessness Existential anguish
Effect: Emotional heaviness, the experience of deep crisis, loss, and grim inevitability. Context: Philosophical reflection, living through deep dramatic states, and achieving catharsis.
The table is based on a user-defined model of musical perception and presents examples of possible interpretations of combinations of evaluative categories within the framework of the user's structured subjective musical experience. It is not intended to provide an objective description of musical works or to imply the universality of interpretations.
• Smart Playlists, Smart Queues, and Listening Scenarios
Automatically generating music selections, smart playlists, smart queues, and listening scenarios based on the user's structured subjective musical experience.
Smart Playlist
A smart playlist is an automatically generated sequence of musical works created according to criteria specified by the user.
Smart Queue
A smart queue is a playback management tool built from multiple smart playlists and rules governing their interaction. The mechanism supports playlist merging, ordering, alternating tracks, looped playback, and random or sorted item delivery. This makes it possible to combine works with different subjective characteristics within a single personalized listening scenario.
Organizing Playback with a Smart Queue:
Capability
Description
Benefits
Blending Different Musical Contexts
Allows several smart playlists with different selection criteria, moods, and playback rules to be combined (for example, mixing the playlists "Joy and Energy" and "Calm and Contemplation").
Reduces the effect of monotony during long listening sessions. The musical flow organically combines different genres, moods, and thematic categories, so the listening experience remains varied, dynamic, and engaging over time.
Creating Musical Narratives
The user can define rules for alternating tracks and playlists (for example, two tracks from playlist A, one track from playlist B, one track from playlist C, and then the cycle repeats).
Enables the creation of a musical narrative. A listening journey can be designed (for example, starting with energetic music, moving to calm music, and returning to energetic music).
Maintaining the Desired Atmosphere
Provides precise control over the balance of the queue: the program automatically alternates musical works in the queue with different ratings (5, 4, and 3 stars), emotional characteristics, and notes.
Ensures comfortable background listening. Prevents jarring shifts in quality or emotional mood between tracks. Helps maintain the desired atmosphere.
Customizable Playback Rules
The queue can be fully customized by the user through individual parameters for sorting, shuffling, and limiting the number of tracks drawn from each source playlist.
Provides full control over the structure of the queue. Makes it possible to flexibly adapt playback to the user's current tasks, preferences, and mood.
A preconfigured music collection allows users to quickly explore the system's capabilities and understand the principles of organizing subjective musical experiences.
Add a Link to a Local Audio File to the Collection
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