WITH the charts dominated by manufactured bands that all sound the same, you could be forgiven for thinking that record companies use robots as talent spotters. They might not yet, but they soon will: a Spanish company has developed software that “listens” to music and predicts how likely it is to be a hit.
Polyphonic HMI of Barcelona claims its software, called Hit Song Science (HSS), picked out the music of jazz songstress Norah Jones as destined for major chart success – months before she topped the US charts and scooped a clutch of Grammy awards.
HSS was developed to help…
