US Patent 7075000 System and method for prediction of musical preferences

A system and a method for predicting the musical taste and/or preferences of the user The present invention receives, on one hand, ratings of a plurality of songs from the user and/or other information about the taste of the user, and on the other hand information about the songs in the catalog from which recommendations are to be given The method then combines both types of information in order to determine the musical preferences of the user. These preferences are then matched to at least one musical selection, which is predicted to be preferred by the user.