MobileSOM

Mobile Selection Of Music is a project that is all about creating and designing innovative user interfaces on mobile devices for browsing music collections. MobileSOM is an application developed in J2ME giving the user the look and feel about new concepts and possibilities to consume music on mobile devices.
The basic idea is to display a music collection on a map rather than in a file browser. Songs with similar characteristics are grouped together on units which are displayed by CD covers or metaphoric symbols (for example a guitar may be associated with rock music) that describe the underlying pieces of music. Those units form a map which is shown in the following screenshots. Moreover, units with similar content can be mapped next to each other with the help of Self-Organising Maps. Among the visualisation techniques for displaying such maps are Islands of Music. An intuitive user interface enables a simple way of selecting music titles from the map and adding them to a playlist. Playlists generated in this manner are played on a mobile device or streamed from a web server. The device can also be used as a remote control, i.e. instead of playing a piece of music, the software triggers another device to play the song.