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Indirect Competition

Competitors

AllMusic - AllMusic is a comprehensive music catalogue featuring similar music networks, music reviews, and comprehensive and in-depth tagging.

Metacritic - Metacritic collects and averages reviews from many professional review publications and sites.

ITunes Store - The ITunes Music Store sells music, as well as featuring user reviews, related artists list, and genre categorization of music.

Analysis

These services do not represent a competitive threat to the proposed personalized music recommendation service. Business partnerships could be arranged with AllMusic and the ITunes Store for music information and click-through music sales, respectively. The Metacritic model of collecting information from a variety of review sites and using this information to make meta-recommendations can be modified, enhanced, and integrated with user ratings to generate recommendations. These services are not a competitive threat, yet much can be gained and learned from these services when designing the proposed service.