Its particularity is its reliance on current and past critical opinions for recommending songs, rather than relying on the more common "wisdom of crowds".
Critical Metrics uses opinions from both mainstream sources like the Rolling Stone ad more niche sources like MP3 blogs such as fluxblog.
According to the founder Joey Anuff, traditional social recommendation systems such as Lastfm are based on "social metrics", and they primarily emphasize what other fans of your favorite band like. Anuff says:
I don't believe social metrics have the same level of authority as critics opinions. For this reason they do a poor job of solving the programming problem every single purveyor has: How do you turn anyone into new music? [....] The undemocratic geek in me is compelled to cite the huge numbers of people - let's just call them "the mainstream"- who do not worry about this, who like what they like and/or hear enough new stuff through happenstance. [...] I am sure there are at least 5 millions music heads in this country who consider music a food group"
It seems like Anuff is probably relying on the music obsessed to help Critical Metrics to take off.
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It's "Joey" Anuff, not "Joney"
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