The Art of Rating Music: expanding music exploration

The Art of Rating Music is a journey into the world of music exploration. . The book provides practical and conceptual context to one of the biggest challenges in today's music landscape - how to match listeners with their music. . This book covers the principles of music rating, and shows how to adopt the concept towards expanding music exploration and having a blast on everyday music sessions. . Music rating systems are an essential missing component in today's music landscape. . Many services have emerged trying to solve this problem, providing users with star ratings, numeric scale ratings, likes, votes, recommendations and alike. . However, none of these services have proved to really measure the quality of music, nor have they succeeded to provide true music ratings. . The Art of Rating Music introduces the principles of music rating systems, the concept, the benefits, and the practical use of applying music ratings. . The book goes beyond music rating - from a tool that efficiently measures the quality of music, to a working system that makes better selections of music, and ultimately the adoption of the concept towards expanding music exploration; - having a blast on every music session. . . "AllMusicRating is the best help I've found when it comes to rating music albums, and it made me reconsider all the albums I've listened to - starting from 0 all over again." . . Niels Gheyle - Ghent, Belgium . . . - Nissim Elias is an all-time music lover, a follower of music trends, and a Music Explorer. . He is the author of The Art of Rating Music 2017, and the creator of the first music rating system and web-service EARs at www.allmusicrating.com .